“iPod tax” looking like a Canadian reality
Does anyone else feel like Canada is just a loft apartment over a really great party? We kid our Canuck friends. Who are we to poke fun at someone when they’re about to get stuck with the addition of $75 to the cost of their iPod? According to Digital Home, a tax on flash memory cards and digital audio players has been approved by the Copyright Board of Canada. It would add $2 to a 1GB memory card, and up to $75 for a 30GB iPod. Yikes! While the decision is expected to be appealed, it remains to be seen whether there will be any leverage to change or vote down the tax. Should it stay in place, it will take effect sometime in 2008. Sorry, guys. At least you have Wayne Gretzky, right? We get stuck with bad health insurance.
[Via CrunchGear]
Way to steal a Robin Williams joke. If you are going to diss our country at least be original.
This sucks large…overtaxed and have the worst data pricing…do we all have “sucker” tattooed on our heads?
so now the iPhone will cost even more…if it ever arrives…will they charge me an extra 200 for my DVR also? How about my 1 TB external storage I was thinking of buying to back up data (which includes mp3’s). This is ridiclious. What about buying a memory card for my digital camera? Sometimes I wish I was american, until I think about it.
Don’t you worry my friends from up north. We too will be overtaxed soon. I feel your pain.
I’m sure the powers that be are working on it, but another hurdle the iPhone has here in Canada is the lack of competitive data plan rates. My understanding is that there is only the option of unlimited data for the phone with At&T? Alot of the carriers here are $25 for 1 megabtye! (or in that range)
I’d get one (iPhone) but I paid a few months penalty to get out of a contract to switch to Rogers already, and now I’ve used up my “hardware discount with longer contract” discount.
Well atleast you guys get healthcare with your overtaxing. All we get is this darn mess to clean up after you know who…
~cough~insidejob~uncough~
man this sucks I hate montreal sometimes but at least I can get good shoes for cheap here
Well most of us live 1 hour away from the boarder and with our dollar so high I’d just drive across the boarder to get one. I think they’re just shooting themselves in the foot.
If this goes through I will take it as my $75 or whatever as paying for the right to pirate.
Looks like I’ll be ‘jumpin’ the ditch’ to go buy my 6th gen iPod (where’s that video clip by the way?) in New York State. They got greedy,…now they get NO tax revenue on the sale of my next iPod!
Man that’s F**KING STUPID!!
Poor Canadians, they get all these really cool combination packages and now they get this tax, the way things work themselves out.
cool combo packages?
so if i go to Canada and buy an ipod i can get all the pirated music i want?
I agree w/ 2E.
This is a tax to offset the piracy that goes on. If they automatically assume that everyone who has digital device will pirate music/movies/etc. Why shouldn’t you get your money’s worth?
They gotta pay for that “free” medical care somehow, no? Welcome to a “black market” boom in Canada folks where Tony Saprano’s family buys up all the electronics in Michigan and has nightly truck runs across the border.
The only upside to this is that this essentially legitmizes piracy for us Canuckistantis. And after all, after labelling us all as potential criminals vis-a-vis this levy, the least we can do is steal some more music and movies !