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Listed below are comments made by Mushbran between Tuesday, 22nd April 2008 and Tuesday, 22nd April 2008.

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The iPod tax resurfaces 2:34pm on 22 Apr 2008 Has this nonsense arisen again? When are the dinasours of the record companies going to wake and smell the proverbial? Bands such as Radiohead and The Charletons have realised that you cannot stop technology. You must adapt or die. Almost evolutionary. A tax on copying devices is ludicrous. Even the ipod lock on copying to another machine can be broken by a widely available piece of software on the web.
I remember years ago, when you bought an LP, the inner sleeve had a skull and crossbones (the skull being a cassette) and underneath it said, "Home taping is killing music". Well, it didn't, and neither will copying in the digital age.
It's just damned greed. They have been milking Joe Public for years. Feels a bit like payback to me.

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