TPM, DRM, to solve levy?

[tOM Trottier]

    "The Coalition believes that copyrighted works should be protected and 
    copyright holders should be fairly compensated for their work. However, 
    technologies are now available to help accomplish both these 
    objectives," said Doug Cooper, general manager of Intel of Canada. "By 
    eliminating levies, the government can encourage record companies and 
    artists to adopt new tools to protect content and ensure more direct 
    methods of compensation."  

http://www.newswire.ca/releases/December2002/10/c1795.html


The retailers and manufacturers are trying to promote Technological 
Protection Measures and Digital Rights Management to "solve" the levy 
"problem."

My personal stance as an objector in these proceedings is that there 
should be a levy to pay creators, but the levy should be a percentage 
rather than a flat rate, and it should be well under 10%. The 3% the US 
has on CDRs sounds good to me.

Otherwise, we'll just buy all our stuff from the US, since levies are 
only paid by resellers, not importers.

tOM


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