[d@DCC] My letter in the Ottawa Citizen today re DRM & the blank media levy

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Bill Traynor wrote:
> This may be a naïve question, but isn't a "levy" just the weasalization of a tax?

As I understand it, the reason they don't call it a tax is that the money
doesn't go to the government - it's handed directly to the "collective
societies" to distribute, supposedly to artists.
-- 
Matthew Skala
mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca                    Embrace and defend.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/

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