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

[Bill Traynor]

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>From: mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca [mailto:mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca] 
>Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:22 PM
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>Subject: RE: [d at DCC] My letter in the Ottawa Citizen today re 
>DRM & the blank media levy
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>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.

Sounds like a funnel for Canadian monies directly to the US economy to me.

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>Matthew Skala
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