11-30-2010, 07:35 AM
mojo_mattv Wrote:floridahip Wrote:i recall quite some time ago, gord being asked about bootlegs. and his quote was (and i paraphrase cuz i don't remember exactly)...."music is like water, it goes where it wants." and "the fan will always buy the album, even if they have a bootleg copy" or something like that. kind of a different attitude. At the time i agreed wholeheartedly, and still do. i may have a bootleg copy first, but i will always buy the album. it is how they make a living. but to tax a medium seems excessive. especially cd's. how do they know i am going to put music on it. what if i was using it to store picutes. it would seem that an mp3 players sole use is to transfer and listen to music. in hind sight if you were to decide to tax a product to compensate an artist, shouldn't the mp3 player have come first!!!
I don't understand how you can tax something like an iPod which is specifically designed to be used with an online music store. The vast majority (95%) of my music is ripped from cd's I've purchased or from iTunes.
What he said