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Don't get too excited, in France there's a tax on all storage devices (sd cards, usb sticks, hdds, laptops, phones etc) to help subsidise the record and film in
by namdnay 5y ago
Don't get too excited, in France there's a tax on all storage devices (sd cards, usb sticks, hdds, laptops, phones etc) to help subsidise the record and film industry...
- carlob 5y agoWe have that in Italy too, but at least that means that ripping CDs or DVDs is entirely legal. It's actually called private copy contribution.
- nephanth 5y agoYep it actually came from Germany, and was afterward adopted by a lot of european countries
- drw85 5y agoGermany has that too. Even on paper, since you could copy pages under copyright.
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- nephanth 5y agoNote that internal HDDs aren't taxed under this tax, only external ones. (So if you don't want to pay it, you can just buy a SATA HDd and an adaptor). Phones are taxed though (yes this doesn't make any sense technically)
- simondotau 5y agoIs the tax on a phone's storage capacity or its overall retail price?
- nephanth 5y agoOn the storage capacity
- simondotau 5y agoHonestly, I'd take that trade. A narrow, stupid tax is definitely the lesser of two evils here. (Especially as it means I'd have a moral license to pirate whatever I wish!)