Young people and tech-savvy buyers across Japan are breathing a sigh of relief as yet another proposed Digital Copyright Tax fails to make the grade. Consumers cheered and celebrated by running to the nearest electronics store to grab the latest Sony digital device or Apple iPod, proclaiming loudly that any attempt to tax them on digital media would be doomed to fail as governments cannot regulate what they neither control or understand.
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Wow the government of Japan actually not making more taxes and rules for people to bind over and take it up the A-hole.
Perhaps one of the board members is an avid digital player collector. Why pay more tax if you don't have to?
Why do they need this tax in the first place?
Apparently there's just so much theft going on that record studios are going out of business.
That said, I've only managed to find one company that's gone out of business in ten years, and that was due to poor management ... not intellectual property theft. If companies are really worried about decreasing sales, maybe they should stop being so American about it and blame their piss-poor "employees" rather than their over-charged customers :/
It is not the American way to use the method of blame the customer but the company then sales go down. That is a global corp. method that American companies just happen to be good at using.