Apple has been ordered to pay US$6.5 million (5 million euros) in taxes in France by SACEM (Google translation), a French organization which doles out the 'copie privée' tax to writers, artists, producers, musicians, and other content creators. The 'copie privée' is a tax in some European countries on digital devices that can display, copy, or transfer copyrighted content.
Though Apple has applied the tax to all devices it sells in France,
