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It's 1850%[1] but still outlandish, also they are taxing external hard drives yet not internal ones, it's a farce in every way possible. Just wait until they f

by mxfh 14y ago

It's 1850%[1] but still outlandish, also they are taxing external hard drives yet not internal ones, it's a farce in every way possible. Just wait until they figure out what dropbox is. [1] http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=de&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fresale%2Fmeldung%2FZPUe-erhoeht-Abgaben-auf-USB-Sticks-und-Speicherkarten-drastisch-1583790.html http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl...

mxfh 14y ago
Fun fact: One of the shareholders of the ZPÜ is the GÜFA [1] (Collective rights management for Adult Entertainment). Of every ZPÜ taxed media you buy 1% [2] of the video associated part of the ZPÜ-fee goes to the porn industry. This summed up to 1.9M EUR in 2005 and 4M in 2010 including some cumulative special payouts, but its safe to say that the GÜFA gets at least a million Euros a year out of that. [3] [4] I'm O.K. with people buying porn, but that everybody subsidizes this by buying storage media has just another quality. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%9CFA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%9CFA [2] http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/7/7586/1.html http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/7/7586/1.html [GERMAN] [3] http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/16/049/1604914.pdf http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/16/049/1604914.pdf [PDF GERMAN Page 16] [4] https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet?global_data.designmode=eb&genericsearch_param.fulltext=g%C3%BCfa&genericsearch_param.part_id=&%28page.navid%3Dto_quicksearchlist%29=Suchen https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet?global_da... [GERMAN - Session protected - ZPÜ numbers under 4.1] click on «Jahresabschluss zum Geschäftsjahr vom 01.01.2010 bis zum 31.12.2010» and solve the captcha, remember that the Bundesanzeiger is a by-law-open official publication in Germany, its a farce.

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It's 1850%[1] but still outlandish, also they are taxing external hard drives yet not internal ones, it's a farce in every way possible. Just wait until they f

by mxfh 14y ago

mxfh 14y ago
Fun fact: One of the shareholders of the ZPÜ is the GÜFA [1] (Collective rights management for Adult Entertainment). Of every ZPÜ taxed media you buy 1% [2] of the video associated part of the ZPÜ-fee goes to the porn industry. This summed up to 1.9M EUR in 2005 and 4M in 2010 including some cumulative special payouts, but its safe to say that the GÜFA gets at least a million Euros a year out of that. [3] [4] I'm O.K. with people buying porn, but that everybody subsidizes this by buying storage media has just another quality. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%9CFA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%9CFA [2] http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/7/7586/1.html http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/7/7586/1.html [GERMAN] [3] http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/16/049/1604914.pdf http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/16/049/1604914.pdf [PDF GERMAN Page 16] [4] https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet?global_data.designmode=eb&genericsearch_param.fulltext=g%C3%BCfa&genericsearch_param.part_id=&%28page.navid%3Dto_quicksearchlist%29=Suchen https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet?global_da... [GERMAN - Session protected - ZPÜ numbers under 4.1] click on «Jahresabschluss zum Geschäftsjahr vom 01.01.2010 bis zum 31.12.2010» and solve the captcha, remember that the Bundesanzeiger is a by-law-open official publication in Germany, its a farce.