Several sources have mentioned Canada raising taxes on all recordable media with new levies for digital media, including an outrageous per-megabyte tax on hard-drive-based MP3 players that would almost double the total cost of the player in some cases. We have media taxes in the U.S. from The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, and perhaps we should worry that a similar digital media tax is in our future. Do note, however, that the Audio Home Recording Act makes personal copying legal, and the levy is the music industry's compensation. I'd be very interested to see numbers on how much the music industry gets from these levies each year. (I would hope that if the music industry gets their way and eliminates all home recording rights that these levies would be eliminated as well!)

See also the U.S. Copyright Office's Title 17 index.