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Because the resuls of collective action isn't always fair for society. Many countries have an HDD/CD/DVD tax, because of (basically) collective action by artist
by Mirioron 7y ago
Because the resuls of collective action isn't always fair for society. Many countries have an HDD/CD/DVD tax, because of (basically) collective action by artists. I don't see this as being fair. Why do I have to pay more when buying a HDD so that artists I'm never ever going to listen to can get more money?
I understand that collective action is often beneficial, but these bad examples are enough to make me annoyed at it.
- aaomidi 7y agoThen unionize against this tax with other fellow HDD buyers? The difference between you and the artists are that they organized. You came on HN to complain.
- dbspin 7y agoThis is a weak argument. Copyright collection agencies don't represent artists. Occasionally they have a few extremely high earning media personalities (notably Metalica back in the Napster days), but these kind of organisations don't represent musicians. Organisations of movie producers / TV producers like the MPAA have even less of a claim to any kind of artist representation. They're large media conglomerates, not artists unions.