New York State needs money for the financial problems of the country and the solution to this problem that most politicians majos think is the same: raising taxes, or better yet, create some new ones! Now the governor of New York between the taxes they want to raise / added is the iPod, in particular also in the rate of multimedia files such as songs from iTunes. In particular, plans to add a fee of 4% for each file purchased online. Clear.Required? I doubt it.

Surely one could add taxes to other products that are worse for the people, and to add a tax to something like a movie or a song online, the only thing that will cause more downloads are “other side”. Will complain, in Spain we have the misfortune of having a tax on hard disks, DVDs, CDs, etc … Fortunately for our pockets, there is P2P.