bryan (02/18/83)
The idea of a tax on blank tapes has a few problems. If there were a tax on tapes It would be very hard to say that somebody was breaking copyright laws by making tapes and selling them, since they would be paying a royalty payment to the record companies. In other words the tax would give permission to everybody to make copy after copy of an album and sell, trade, or give them to anybody. Also what about the person who buys a blank tape to record song birds or what ever? The answer is not a tax on blank tapes but to give the public what it wants good high quality recordings on albums and tapes, at a cost that would make it not worth your while to copy albums or tapes. The problem of price will, in the near future, give The software companies a bigger problem of copying than the record companies have now. Also why don't the record companies wise up to the fact that album and tape sales will continue to fall not so much because of pirates but at the hands of the home computer. ihuxf!bryan Bryan DeLaney, BTL Naperville IL