Re:Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecra...
by Aerroon on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @07:05PM
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>and one could imagine thieves paying a token amount for something in order to claim it is not theft.
A lot of countries already have this. There's an additional tax on media storage devices such as CDs, HDDs etc. The money is then given to some copyright association that supposedly hands some of it out to the content creators.
Re:Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecra...
by account42 on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:31AM
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A lot of countries have copyright levies. In most of them this does unfortunately not give you the right to copy things freely. It really should though.
A lot of countries already have this. There's an additional tax on media storage devices such as CDs, HDDs etc. The money is then given to some copyright association that supposedly hands some of it out to the content creators.