Hi Colin,

>I'm not sure if it's the same in the US but up here they are going to (or may already have) implement a surtax on sale of blank tapes to compensate for lost revenues.

We've something similar here, but it's not used to compensate copies you made for friends, but to compensate recordings you made from the transmission of a radio station and for copies for your own use. BTW, this fee used to be on recordable CDs, too.

Christof