The “iPod tax” meme just won’t die. Today, over at TechMeme I picked up a story on the Guardian UK website about the UK music industry lobby’s desire for an iPod tax. Here’s the money quote, from the original article: “Enormous value is derived by those technology companies and manufacturers who enable consumers to copy. UK creators and rights owners are legally entitled to share in this value – as they hold the exclusive right to reproduce their music – but are currently excluded from the value chain.” This is a song (so to speak) we have heard before. Instead of thinking about how to grow markets, connect with customers and expand the addressable audience for paid music that fans would actually like to buy, UK record companies would rather just confiscate someone else’s money. They genuinely believe they are, to use their words, “entitled” to it. Elsewhere,  I note that another research firm has reported that Amazon’s MP3 store does not appear to be taking share from Apple, which roughly agrees with our own findings. In other words: yes, it is possible to grow the pie, rather than whinge about how you deserve a slice of someone else’s. As we noted in our research note, “Warner Music Chairman Edgar Bronfman is Crazy–Like a Fox” (available to YG subscribers), at least one US music publisher agrees that “entitlement” is not a useful strategy any longer. Our unsolicited advice to the UK MBG: get a life.