An Endless Cycle: Taxing Blank Cassettes and Killing Music

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In today’s era of streaming and YouTube where we as consumers have the power to pick and choose the songs we listen to and curate our own playlists, the idea of a homemade mixtape is either quaint or completely alien depending on how old you are. Go back just a few decades in the UK though and you’d find heavy-handed warnings in almost every cassette tape sleeve telling you, quite matter of factly, that “Home Taping Is Killing Music” with the qualifier, “And it’s illegal”.

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https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-210398605/stock-photo-hand-holding-blue-cassette-tape-isolated-in-white-background
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-197850817/stock-photo-old-tape-recorder-is-playing-music-close-up
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