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Maybe I misunderstand but it sounds to me like there's some additional charge on storage devices that includes the cost of piracy ("copying"). Which means you
by mulmen 3y ago
Maybe I misunderstand but it sounds to me like there's some additional charge on storage devices that includes the cost of piracy ("copying"). Which means you did pay for it in the sense that you paid the fine for piracy. Building a piracy fee into storage devices is an incentive to pirate because you already paid for it. Why pay the fine for piracy and also pay for the content legitimately?
- martin8412 3y agoThe fee is for legal copying. Let's say you've bought a DVD and want a copy for your family vacation home. You can make a copy of that legally. That's what the fee covers. Something I've never done and will probably never do. I also don't know of anyone who ever has. The fee should completely go away in the age of streaming services, but I doubt rights holders agree.
- mulmen 3y agoWhy would I pay a fee to legally copy something? What if I don't copy any content on that drive ever and I use it purely to store my original creations? Why would the fee be built in to the storage device and not the original content price? This makes zero sense to me.
- martin8412 3y agoIt doesn't make any sense. To make it even worse, you also pay the fee on the internal storage of smartphones.
- mulmen 3y agoHow can that be a thing?!
- daneel_w 3y agoThe fee also covers making (private use) copies of content you don't own. It's the reason the fees were instated in the 80s - when people began recording songs on the radio instead of buying the artists' tapes at the record store.
- mulmen 3y agoWhat a short sighted philosophy. It hurts my brain to think this is real.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI agree it's an incentive. But if I pay extra car-stealing fee to a builder who builds me a garage and steal your car, you'll probably think less about how I was incentivised and more that you didn't see the money.
- mulmen 3y agoAh yes the "you wouldn't download a car" argument. Still as dumb today as it was two decades ago. Garages don't have car stealing fees because that's fucking stupid. Does your toaster have a fee built in for stolen bread?
- robertlagrant 3y agoI'll consider that point missed. I don't think rudimentary pattern matching is a good alternative to reasoning, nor aggression a good alternative to discussion.