[mitchbert]

didn't they come to an agreement to place a flat royalty fee per recording machine & blank tapes produced (audio and video) as a way to compensate the content industry?

Yes, but the royalty fee is problematic in and of itself. With the diving price of media there will shortly become a situation where the tax (I'm using Canadian assumptions here) will be greater than the price of the media. Unacceptable. That doesn't even begin to address the fact that there's no data that indicates that media is being used more for music than business data. We're getting scr*wed, and no money in Canada is being disbursed until the cases are settled. It's a tax scam by our Liberal government.

[Destro]

That is why no such flat blind royalty is being accepted as a solution by makers of burners and blank cds.