Canada has also been taxing blank media since 1995 (almost 9 years) to compensate copyright holders for "internet" infrigement. So far Canada has paid out $26 million . I'm sure the industry wants more, and users wish to pay less, but the compromise has kept Canadian p2p'ers protected so far. The CRIAA will keep trying . . .

Last December the copyright holders tried to get the ISP's to pay, but the case was turned down by our Supreme Court.

FYI, here's current tariff rates

• Audio cassettes of 40 minutes or more in length 29¢
  CD-R and CD-RW 21¢
  CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDisc 77¢
  Non-removable memory permanently embedded in a digital audio recorder – no more than 1GB $2
  Non-removable memory permanently embedded in a digital audio recorder – more than 1GB but no more than 10GB $15
  Non-removable memory permanently embedded in a digital audio recorder –more than 10GB $25