Apple Canada announced today that iPod buyers who paid extra due to the fact that their government assumes all iPod owners are criminals will get their money back. As previously reported here, the Canadian Supreme Court refused to hear a case on the matter, letting a lower court's ruling stand, which determined that applying the "guilty until proven innocent tax" to mp3 players is not appropriate.

Now, if they would just come to their senses with regard to blank CD media also...

Tell you what Canadians, when the government tries stuff like that here in the good 'ole U. S. of A., we start dumping CDs into Boston Harbor.