7 May
2003
7 May
'03
12:30 a.m.
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 07:43:27PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
Given that a tax is already collected to make backups of music (the 1992 Home Recording Act levies a tax on blank media), if one were to buy a CD at Tower Records and then not be able to make a copy, one
Remember what the freedom-loving Bush administration did today in a deal inked with the freedom-loving Singaporean government: http://news.com.com/2100-1045_3-1000110.html?tag=lh
Under the deal, Singapore agrees to prevent its citizens from manufacturing optical discs unless they hold "a valid license to do so."
The actual text is here: http://www.ustr.gov/new/fta/Singapore/consolidated_texts.htm -Declan