Reply #256: As I recall, The Recording Industry,... [View All]

[GReedDiamond]

...back in the day when cassette tape recorders became readily available to the general public, lobbied for adding a tax to the cost of blank cassettes, payable to themselves, which they justified as a way to recapture "lost profits" from the recording of their copyrighted material from radio broadcasts.

The tax was never passed, but, somehow, miraculously, the Recording Industry survived long enough to bring us a slew of artists who rely heavily on the use of autotune.

Thanks for The Audio Home Recording Act links, Hannah.