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Because it’s illegal as long as you don’t own the original content. Those fees are here just to compensate the fact that you COULD copy your legally owned cont
by pjerem 3y ago
Because it’s illegal as long as you don’t own the original content.
Those fees are here just to compensate the fact that you COULD copy your legally owned content and that it COULD represent a loss of opportunity for the rights holders mafia (because that’s what they are). Oh, and that compensation is calculated by an organization representative of … the rights holders.
- mulmen 3y agoThat is just absolutely mindblowingly insane to me. I honestly cannot wrap my head around it. Why the hell would I pay a fee for something I might do? I mean, what? How is that a thing? My car can go 140mph. Does that mean I should be in jail for speeding?
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 3y agoI have never understood those laws since their introduction. You should go to jail because you could kill someone once in your life? And because of this, I have to pay taxes to famous singers (the "mafia") even if I only store family photos on my phone or on my computer. This makes absolutely no sense to me, and that's why I got my money back by using a VPN to download whatever I want.
- pjerem 3y agoI suppose that those laws are from an era where the only media you could write was audio cassettes and it was mostly a way to record FM radio or copy your friends music. And now there is an intense lobbying not to change things.
- mulmen 3y agoEven that doesn’t pass the sniff test. I can record my own original information onto a cassette tape. If labels don’t want records to be created they shouldn’t blast the songs out for free. Claw back the royalties from the radio stations and see how long that works.