David, I can confirm you are correct. Music CDs cost more because of the ATIP. It is not a tax though, it is a royalty paid to the record industry.
If people want to do the 'right thing', they will burn their music CDs onto this special media, and essentially, pay a little for their piracy.
Oh, no you don't...
The law in USA specifically allows me to make a copy for my own purposes, such that I can make a tape from a CD, or make a copy of the CD so I can store the original and not scratch it, or keep one in the bedroom and one in the car, or whatever else I can think of as long as the copy I make is for my own use.
This is not piracy, in any way, shape, or form. It is legal, period, end of story, and I have already paid for that right by buying the original music album. It is abuse of power and piracy on THEIR part to try to take more money from me for the same album. In essence, the argument that I must pay more for a blank CD because someone MAY use it to record pirated music is akin to Microsoft's argument that PC's should not be sold without operating systems because someone MAY install a pirated OS onto them.
In either case, bullshit. It is wrong, and it should be disallowed.
And you should not be fooled into thinking that you are doing "the right thing" by buying such CD's; you are instead allowing them to trample on a right you already have and take away not only part of the freedom you had been given but also raise the cost of the music you already bought.
(Of course, if you are indeed pirating music, then you won't care about "the right thing" and will use data CD's exclusively, so as usual in such circumstances it is only the worthy citizen who gets screwed.)
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