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No. What you shouldn't feel guilty about is storing legally obtained material on a purchased storage medium, like from a friend or the radio/TV. That is what th
by Aachen 3y ago
No. What you shouldn't feel guilty about is storing legally obtained material on a purchased storage medium, like from a friend or the radio/TV. That is what the tax covers.
We can argue whether that's fair and appropriate, and I suspect we share an opinion there, but saying that never paying any artist in the world is fine because your local copyright authority was paid... that's quite dubious
- daneel_w 3y agoThe Swedish fee really is aimed at "piracy for private use", as clearly detailed in the written laws, not for duplicating one's own records/movies onto a second piece of storage.
- Aachen 3y agoI didn't say it's for one's own content duplication Has an individual in Sweden ever been taken to court over sharing movies with others online? How did that go? I recall the pirate bay's domain was taken at some point and the hosting raided, despite not even hosting any copyrighted content but rather facilitating copyright infringement for the masses, so I presume copyright for individuals is still a thing there
- daneel_w 3y ago> "Has an individual in Sweden ever been taken to court over sharing movies with others online? How did that go?" Yes, a handful of times. It almost always ends bad for the pirate, because sharing like that is not private copying for private use.
- madsbuch 3y agoWouldn't it be congruent to remember to record it off the broadcast and download it later? A lot of what is being downloaded has already been broadcasted.
- Aachen 3y agoI don't know that that was incorporated when deciding the height of the tax, so then that wouldn't be covered I suspect it'll amount to at least 50€/month (multiply by how many storage devices you buy on average per month) if the tax were supposed to cover all music and movies ever made, let alone software and other copyrighted works