!@!Re: [Upd-discuss] a longer term strategy for promoting the public domain?

[Michael Hart]

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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Marc Lavallée wrote:

> Le 25 Août 2004 00:45, Marc Lavallée a écrit :
>
>> Because of the CPCC's "good" work, every time I burn a cd with PD content
>> or install Gnu/Linux on a new hard drive, I'm obliged to pay fees that go
>> to copyright holders for music.
>
> I was wrong; there's no fees for hard drives.
>
> While I browsed the CPCC web site (proprietary Flash plugin required), I found
> that there's an exemption for the "perceptually disabled". It means that
> people who can't listen to music don't have to pay the fees, because cds can

How do they avoid paying the fees?

Is it more complicated than the savings?


> also contains non-musical material. So the fees are for people suspected of
> listening to music.  I admit, I can still hear music...
>
> Why not impose a fee on cotton swabs? Maybe that new born babies should pay
> the CPCC a welcome tax; it's been statistically proved that many will
> enventually enjoy music, and on rare occasions even canadian music!

Actually, I am predicting just such a "Welcome Tax" for newborns,
which will also mandate fingerprinting, retinal printing, *and* RFID
implantation so the "good guys" in charge of "national security"
always know where you are. . .of course it will be illegal for YOU
to know who or where THEY are. . . .


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