Apple to refund "piracy tax" levy to Canadian iPod owners
Apple has announced it will refund the ’piracy tax’ the Canadian government put on every iPod sold in the country.
Although the Canadian Supreme Court ruled last month that the tax - a levy put on all recordable blank media, such as tapes and CDs, to compensate the music industry for piracy - was unlawful, the levy had affected new iPod buyers for more than a year.
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