[geeks] P2P Monitoring / Mitigation

[Doug McLaren]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:10:12PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

| However Der Mouse is in Canada where P2P "sharing" music is legal. In fact
| he pays a tax on blank media to cover royalty payments.

In the US, Audio DATs and CDRs have a similar tax.

   http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/bad_laws/dat_tax.html

(of course, DAT is not used so much, and the only people who buy Audio
CD-Rs are either 1) using a stereo component CDR writer that requires
them, or 2) are using a computer that doesn't require them but don't
know better.)

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