>and one could imagine thieves paying a token amount for something in order to claim it is not theft. A lot of countries already have this. There's an addition

>and one could imagine thieves paying a token amount for something in order to claim it is not theft. A lot of countries already have this. There's an additional tax on media storage devices such as CDs, HDDs etc. The money is then given to some copyright association that supposedly hands some of it out to the content creators.