From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 10 11:41: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BBDB37B409 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8157 invoked by uid 100); 10 Oct 2001 18:40:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15300.38456.184889.825174@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:40:56 -0500 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Jamie Bowden , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? In-Reply-To: <20011010191529.C83192@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011010104701.04264050@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011010101446.053c3560@localhost> <20011010184600.A82552@lpt.ens.fr> <20011010185224.A83192@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20011010110117.04268f00@localhost> <20011010191529.C83192@lpt.ens.fr> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan types: > Question about these taxes on things like CD writers, which are > supposed to "compensate" for copyright violation: does that mean, > having paid that tax, I'm now entitled to copy copyrighted material > using it? If not, what the heck am I paying that tax for? For the right to be able to buy those devices at all. The taxes that I know of are applied to the media - cassette tapes, CDs for audio cd copiers, and DAT. I'm not sure, but I think videotape isn't taxed because Sony won the betamax case. The content licensing industry has sufficient pull that they can prevent such things from hitting market unless they get compensation. If Brett's right and the auto manufacturers line up against this, it'll have a tough time passing. On the other hand, changing it so that it's limited to devices capable of storing or playing copyrightable content would probably miss them, as well as most people using embedded systems - but still make Eisner et. al. happy. And would be no less nasty to anyone working outside the mainstream. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message