Taxes on hard drives

[George at Orwellian.Org]

May Man wrote:
#
#    Practically, did the "tax" on blank tapes ever "work"? Of course not.
#    Metallica and Eminem did not see meaningful revenues. The tax
#    vanished into the maw of the government, the RIAA and ASCAP
#    bureaucracy, and the pockets of the shake down artists.

I once asked a musician here in NYC what became of the money.

Yeah, the local unions got it. ("shake down artists"?)

That's as close as it got to the musicians.

Yet another thing that should be put online
for integrity: its distribution.