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...make it illegal to unlock cellphones, transfer music from CDs to digital music players such as iPods, ...
I walk down the street.
Everyone and the dog has a music player in their ears.
and you want to make it illegal.
Can you say zero support ?
How about this ?
A simple tax on music players that can be used to transfer music (or other files) but specificall exempt music players that cannot. For example, a music player that you can copy files to the player , but not back out from it to somewhere else again ... would be untaxed. Or perfectly legal , or whatever. Since it could not be used to copy the file from one computer to another.
I'm sure if you did that , manufacturers would quickly modify their units to comply and avoid the tax (or outright illegallity) and everyone could continue to listen to their music.
The record companies would hate it of course. They're not in this to be fair , they're in this for Vender Lock , make them pay through the lungs over and over and over , but that would be a fair use situation, I think.
http://www.premier.gov.on.ca/feedback/default.asp
(Premier Dalton Mcguinty, of Ontario, his website where you may send thoughts / opinions to him)
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