Re: FN-FORUM Copying music off the internet

date posted 1st July 2003 15:49

Quoting Dom [EMAIL REMOVED]

> On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 10:35 am, you wrote:
>
> > To compensate for this, tapes and recordable CDs have a levy placed on=20
> > them to allow for the fact that they will be used to copy music.=20
>
> Not in this country, to the best of my knowledge

I was wondering about this too... I remember it being suggested, but frankly the
issue with that (and in a similar way with the download thing) is that the real
problems are with piracy on an industrial scale and with the way the existing
media are priced.

James Murphy
Consett, County Durham.