These laws are similar in what seems like a number of countries, and the reason why they're like this is quite simple: They want to have the cake (getting money

These laws are similar in what seems like a number of countries, and the reason why they're like this is quite simple: They want to have the cake (getting money from extra charges on stuff like DVD/BD burners, writeable media, hard drives etc. -- which you get charged to offset fair use and related rights) and also eat it (effectively denying you the rights you already paid for with those surcharges). In a normal world, I can only do one of these. Either I take the money, and render services or goods OR I don't take the money, and then don't render the services. But in RIAA/DMCA/GEMA/...-Crazytown you get to charge people AND actively avoid delivering anything.