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I find your comment interesting, but I don't know what this is referring to. Any chance you can expand on this point? or link to something that explains it?

Y-bar 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
lopis 3y ago
Some countries in Europe decided that it was impossible to stop piracy. Instead they added a fee to storage devices, like disks and USB drives, that is supposed to compensate for the lost revenue. I don't remember where that money goes, but probably to big media companies?
- Ekaros 3y ago
  It is not about piracy, but making copies for personal and family use. Like ripping cds and dvds. Or recording material on home video system.
  - daneel_w 3y ago
    The law states that it's for "lost sales" originating from e.g. recording songs aired on radio instead of buying the tape/CD. "Piracy for private use".
Scandiravian 3y ago
There's an additional tax on all storage media, be it harddrives, usb sticks, burnable CDs. If you can write data to it, the tax is applied. The tax is used to compensate rights holders. I don't know exactly how it's distributed or who is actually receiving the money, but the goal was to offset the alleged loss of income from piracy
- daneel_w 3y ago
  The discussion of how much artists are actually getting from this has been going on since forever. Plenty of Swedish artists have publically stated that they receive either "practically nothing" or "literally nothing" and that the only ones who appear to benefit are the "fat cats" at the top of the association collecting the fees rather than the artists.
  - Scandiravian 3y ago
    I was not aware of this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention Do you know whether it's the organisation representing the artists (Coda here in Denmark) or the labels/movie studios that end up being the beneficiaries of the tax?
    - daneel_w 3y ago
      No idea, I've never seen any actual accounting from Copyswede (nor the record companies) of how they split the 150+ million SEK collected annually. But Swedish artists, by their own accounts, aren't getting anything.
- JuanPosadas 3y ago
  People don't like paying taxes for services they don't use. If I'm paying the "piracy tax" no matter what, I might as well get my money's worth.
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Y-bar 3y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

lopis 3y ago

Some countries in Europe decided that it was impossible to stop piracy. Instead they added a fee to storage devices, like disks and USB drives, that is supposed to compensate for the lost revenue. I don't remember where that money goes, but probably to big media companies?

Ekaros 3y ago
It is not about piracy, but making copies for personal and family use. Like ripping cds and dvds. Or recording material on home video system.
- daneel_w 3y ago
  The law states that it's for "lost sales" originating from e.g. recording songs aired on radio instead of buying the tape/CD. "Piracy for private use".

Scandiravian 3y ago

There's an additional tax on all storage media, be it harddrives, usb sticks, burnable CDs. If you can write data to it, the tax is applied. The tax is used to compensate rights holders. I don't know exactly how it's distributed or who is actually receiving the money, but the goal was to offset the alleged loss of income from piracy

daneel_w 3y ago
The discussion of how much artists are actually getting from this has been going on since forever. Plenty of Swedish artists have publically stated that they receive either "practically nothing" or "literally nothing" and that the only ones who appear to benefit are the "fat cats" at the top of the association collecting the fees rather than the artists.
- Scandiravian 3y ago
  I was not aware of this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention Do you know whether it's the organisation representing the artists (Coda here in Denmark) or the labels/movie studios that end up being the beneficiaries of the tax?
  - daneel_w 3y ago
    No idea, I've never seen any actual accounting from Copyswede (nor the record companies) of how they split the 150+ million SEK collected annually. But Swedish artists, by their own accounts, aren't getting anything.
JuanPosadas 3y ago
People don't like paying taxes for services they don't use. If I'm paying the "piracy tax" no matter what, I might as well get my money's worth.

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