Re: Re: [Sussex] This is appalling... Dutch Pass iPod Tax

[Brian Piner]

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Message date : Apr 29 2005, 05:23 PM
>From : "Geoffrey J. Teale" 
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Subject : Re: [Sussex] This is appalling... Dutch Pass iPod Tax

gteale at cmedresearch.com (Geoffrey J. Teale) writes:

> The best thing about this is the logic. The record companies see any
> form of media onto which our "product" can be copied as a loss of
> revenue. They believe this because they can prove it is _possible_ to
> do it on any instance of such media and they can prove that it has
> happened on more than one occasion. By induction they demand that the
> purchase of such media have an additional levy to cover their costs
> because in every instance it is possible that the user is "stealing"
> from them.

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My word I typed that all too fast. I'm afraid the RIAA make me
angrier than just about anything (except maybe OPEC.. but it's
essentially the same ball-game). Apologies for the lack of
grammatical rigour. :-)


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Geoff Teale
CMed Technology - gteale at cmedresearch.com
Free Software Foundation - tealeg at member.fsf.org

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