Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid State Media By 2000%

Post by carlob » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 7:43 PM UTC

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #102

foob wrote: post #28

We have similar 3% in the US on blank media cds ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy#United_Sta... ). The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, the same legislation that put these levies into place, also protected the rights of individuals to make non-commercial copies of copyrighted works. At least that's my read on it, though I am not a lawyer. All of the comments here seem vehemently opposed to the levy…

How could that ever be distributed fairly? How do you determine what percentage the Gaga's get versus the indy artist down the street? Given this would cannibalize sales, you wouldn't be able to use sales figures because there would be no way for a new group to get to the level of sales a Lady Gaga had. If the government starts deciding, you make music a communistic business, which would not be good for music. (For t…