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Living in Germany, I can state that the costs are very low: 10 EUR for a DVD/CD/other media are the typical ballpark. You are essentially just paying a fee for
by Topolomancer 4y ago
Living in Germany, I can state that the costs are very low: 10 EUR for a DVD/CD/other media are the typical ballpark. You are essentially just paying a fee for an administrative assistant to pull your files and give them to you.
- gambiting 4y agoSame in UK. There is a fee but it's like £20, it's minimal.
- lozenge 4y ago£20 is not a minimal fee (meaning, would pay without a second thought) for most people in the UK.
- gambiting 4y agoWhat makes you think so?
- sorokod 4y agoPerhaps the fact that some need to use food banks or even disconnect from electricity providers https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/15/watchdog-urged-to-step-in-as-uk-poorest-turn-off-energy-supply https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/15/watchdog-urg...
- gambiting 4y agoSure, of course those people exist. I mean specifically what makes you say that for "most" of people in the UK £20 is not a minimal expense.
- tiagod 4y agoImagine I have a heart attack. I do an ECG, some CT, X-RAY, MRI. Suddenly its £200 just for the DVDs.
- gambiting 4y agoReally? Where did you get that quote? That's not how it's meant to work, not with NHS anyway. When I did that recently I rang my GP surgery, and they got EVERYTHING from my medical history. You don't pay £20 per result - it's £20 to get hundreds of pages of medical history(if you have that much) all at once.
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoDo you get paper copies or PDFs?
- gambiting 4y agoThey sent me an email with a link to an encrypted archive with everything in it.
- bscphil 4y agoThis thread is a good example of a law of internet communication: when different people are responding consecutively to a single person in a thread, each person will subtly change the subject and misunderstand the foregoing argument, so the end of the thread will be discussing a completely different topic than the beginning.
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- DanBC 4y agoThis is out of date information. The fee was scrapped. The fee should only be charged where the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.