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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by megous on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:02AM (#17968153)
Compare that to my country, where it's perfectly legal to download whatever music or movies you like from the internet for personal use, pirate websites or not. Also a western democracy. So it's not so bad everywhere.

Though a price for this is that we pay a special tax on every storage device we purchase.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by anticensor on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:09PM (#17970199)
Turkey? We pay TRT license for all audiovisual capable equipment which is able to receive TRT content.
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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by Gaelan on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:47AM (#17968685)
If you don’t mind, where is this?
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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by thejenk on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:36AM (#17969832)
My mind jumped to Canada when I read the above comment, but really there are a number of countries that fit the mould. Most western countries have a special levy on blank media, including all EU member states except Luxembourg. I don't know which countries don't prohibit the downloading copyrighted material similarly to how they prohibit sharing that media, but Canada is one of them.
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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by drdaeman on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:01AM (#17969450)
A special tax on storage devices and legal status for downloads matches Russia.

Not a western democracy, though.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by seba_dos1 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @10:29AM (#17969115)
It's like this in Poland for sure. You can't share, but can download. Doesn't apply to software of course due to its different licensing schema.
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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by h91wka on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:06AM (#17969501)
That still makes torrenting illegal
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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by megous on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:54AM (#17979578)
Yes, but how would you prove how many copies of something someone shared?
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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by Gaelan on Friday September 14, 2018 @02:10AM (#17985049)
Not if you just leech, right?
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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by egman_ekki on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @10:16AM (#17968985)
Could be Czech republic or Slovakia.
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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by megous on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:50AM (#17979549)
Czech republic
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