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Originally Posted by Agent 488
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ah piracy taxes which norway and other countries like canada have is based on unit sold.
it goes up as the units are sold, canada counts sales thru itunes now for example, where they originally only counted sales of cd.
what was really bad was that they only counted sales thru stores so independent artist who burned their own cd and sold them at the club dates, paid taxes on the cd and got nothing back now since they can sell their stuff independently on itunes (still a fucking pain in the ass to get approved) they get part of their tax money back.
if canada counted self sales -- see the above link to JC website, then it would be fair.
oh and btw most independent artist in canada don't realize they actually have qualifying sales, so the government is currently holding a shit load of money "undistributed"
http://cpcc.ca/english/finHighlights.htm