Japanese Majors' assault on the iPod

Just like in France, majors in Japan wish that a tax be created on audio players, aiming at compensating for losses related to copy operations.
Japanese are quite moderate though in their bidding, as the tax will be related to the player price, and will be between 2 and 5% if its value.
It is a shame though to tax the iPod in a country where it involved a sale of a million tunes over the web in such a record time.
Yet it is probably a trend, as majors wish to have their part of the iPod cake, considering that without them, this product wouldn't have been of any interest at all.
It would be quite interesting to imagine, only a short moment, a world without such tentacular commercial enterprises.