How did this one sneak in under the radar?

The UK’s Music Busi­ness Group is request­ing that a tax be levied on tech­nolo­gies that allow ‘for­mat shift­ing’. To you and me that means that if you can trans­fer or copy your music from it, to it, or using it, it should be taxed. The rea­son­ing behind this? Let’s have the BPI explain:

Enor­mous value is derived by those tech­nol­ogy com­pa­nies and man­u­fac­tur­ers who enable con­sumers to copy. UK cre­ators and rights own­ers are legally enti­tled to share in this value — as they hold the exclu­sive right to repro­duce their music — but are cur­rently excluded from the value chain.

Hands off Ctrl-C / Apple-C, pay up now!

via BBC dot.life