I know that in Belgium there is a law where storage which can be used to play pirated media has a surcharge that is used to compensate authors for the possible

I know that in Belgium there is a law where storage which can be used to play pirated media has a surcharge that is used to compensate authors for the possible loss of income because of the potential pirating. Maybe this is a European directive and enforced in all of those countries, and they need to figure out how they're going to approach this law.