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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
by 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 agoThe 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 agoI 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 agoNo 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 agoPeople 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.