Canadian SD card buyers are all criminals (or so say the CPCC)

The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) has a long history of trying to squeeze money from people by labeling them as criminals. It's tried slapping a 'you're a criminal' tax first on iPods (because everyone who owns an iPod is a thief), and then on ISPs (because we all know that internet connections are only ever used to steal).

50¢ for each electronic memory card with 1 gigabyte of memory or less, $1.00 for each electronic memory card with more than one gigabyte of memory but less than 8 gigabytes of memory, and $3.00 for each electronic memory card with 8 gigabytes of memory or more.

But wait a minute ... what do SD cards have to do with music or music piracy? I really don't know. They're used in digital cameras, and micro SD cards are in a lot of cell phones (and could be used to store music I guess), but I can't think of many music players that make use of SD cards, and I doubt that SD cards filled with pirated music are traded. Bottom line, I can't see any tangible connection between SD cards and music piracy.

Seems to me that the CPCC is once again on a cash grab, and seems SD cards as an untapped resource (as opposed to tidying up the music industry). Maybe this is the CPCC's latest money-making idea ... taxing law-abiding photographers who buy storage for their digital cameras.

Or how about this idea CPCC ... what about taxing every Canadian who has ears? That might work too.