We tried a digital levy on recordable CDs in the 1998 legislation. I think that experience demonstrated that you just don't know where things are going. Technology is evolving so rapidly, and I suspect that anything you do is probably going to be overtaken fairly quickly by technology. For example, I suspect we will be using pens as recording devices. The attempt to impose a levy is probably going to be frustrated in that way.
Second, my belief is that it's an attempt to solve one problem by imposing a solution unrelated to the problem itself. The use of digital media is so diverse that it's unfair to impose on all uses of that media the cost of compensating the producers in a certain sector. We resisted doing that in 1998, when it was suggested that a levy be applied to hard drives, for the simple reason that they were being used for business and all kinds of applications, and not simply for copying music, as the concern was at the time. I still know people who use their recordable CDs, even though they could use recordable DVDs free of it, to keep their Kodak pictures on. Yet they're paying a fee that goes to an unrelated point.
You know, accountability and responsibility say that if you have a problem, figure out a way to fix that problem without imposing the responsibility on others unfairly.