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If I lived in a country where the "pirate" levy was in place I would feel justified in copyright infringement because I would feel I have already paid for it.

• rplnt 14y ago
  What country you do live in? I'm just curious where this doesn't exist. In Slovakia (and also Czech Rep.) you have to pay for empty hard drives, DVDs, ... But pirating movies/music isn't illegal so I guess it evens out?
  • macspoofing 14y ago
    >But pirating movies/music isn't illegal so I guess it evens out? I don't live in Slovakia or the Czech Republic but I'm just going to go ahead and say you're wrong.
    • lvh 14y ago
      In many countries, downloading (which I assume GP means by "pirating") is fine, redistribution is not. Example: the Netherlands, where the govt. has recently affirmed that not only is it legal, it will remain so: https://torrentfreak.com/dutch-parliament-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111224/ https://torrentfreak.com/dutch-parliament-downloading-movies...
    • H4wk_cz 14y ago
      I do live in Czech Republic and it's not illegal to download music and movies. However, sharing is illegal, so e.g. torrents are illegal.
  • dalore 14y ago
    I live in the UK.
• frooxie 14y ago
  I doubt that this is a "pirate levy" at all. The fee on storage media is usually supposed to cover media shared with family and close friends, which is legal in many countries and does not count as piracy.
  • gcb 14y ago
    So when i buy media to back up my own work i have to pay a fee intended as a taxation to people that listen to music or watches movies with their family and friends? mind is full of...
  • njharman 14y ago
    Why does one very specific industry get government mandated, compulsory tariff? Hint: starts with "lobby" ends with "ists"
• sanswork 14y ago
  The way the laws worked out to allow pirate taxes in Canada means that a lot of "piracy" is now legal. Though the media companies are now working on having the tax and making it illegal so we'll see how that goes.