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Copyright advocates in the past have successfully argued that empty CDs are tantamount to copyright infringement. Some countries (Spain) have even had (still do
by Aerroon 6y ago
Copyright advocates in the past have successfully argued that empty CDs are tantamount to copyright infringement. Some countries (Spain) have even had (still does?) a tax on HDDs and SSDs.
You pay extra when purchasing a harddrive, because it's possible to put pirated works on it.
We've already made that hop.
- Shared404 6y ago> You pay extra when purchasing a harddrive, because it's possible to put pirated works on it. Well, if we've already payed for it... Jokes aside, every time I start feeling vaguely guilty about pirating something (which I only do from large corps, not indies) something like this pops up.
- zadokshi 6y agoDoes admitting such things demonstrate a lack of wisdom? Does copyright infringement monitoring extend to comments on public forums?
- Shared404 6y agoMaybe I'm only kidding. Who knows? But yes, and probably.
- kaszanka 6y agoIt's not as if it will actually have any consequences.
- ohgodplsno 6y agoNot really. Here, I can publicly say that I've got 12 terabytes of hard drives, about 8 of which are absolutely full of copyrighted content. Games, movies, music, PDFs, software. I even seed quite a bit of it. Any MPAA representative, or the legal equivalent in my country are invited to get fucked, since they would need access to said hard drives to prove it.
- 6510 6y agoNot now but in the future it certainly will come back to you.
- mcdevilkiller 6y agoWe do still have, yes. And I'm pretty sure most of Europe, too.
- 0xFluegel 6y agoGermany has that, too. Any USB-Stick, CD, etc. that a normal user can write any data onto.