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Re:'Canada Is a Video Piracy Hotspot While Brazil Sees Pirac... by xethos on Monday January 22, 2024 @12:54AM (#39086754)
> Canada's current private copying levies are as follows: $0.29 per unit for CD-R, CD-RW, CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio disks [0]

The Canadian government does not. You likely haven't paid the tax in the last decade, if ever.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

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Re:'Canada Is a Video Piracy Hotspot While Brazil Sees Pirac... by unintendedcons on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @02:56AM (#39187459)
Thank you for this correction.

While it changes my understanding of the legal facts, my feelings about piracy remain the same. Funny, that.

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