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Re:FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention o... by namdnay on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:40AM (#27434348)
Don't get too excited, in France there's a tax on all storage devices (sd cards, usb sticks, hdds, laptops, phones etc) to help subsidise the record and film industry...
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Re:FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention o... by nephanth on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:11AM (#27435432)
Note that internal HDDs aren't taxed under this tax, only external ones. (So if you don't want to pay it, you can just buy a SATA HDd and an adaptor). Phones are taxed though (yes this doesn't make any sense technically)
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Re:FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention o... by simondotau on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:17PM (#27442759)
Is the tax on a phone's storage capacity or its overall retail price?
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Re:FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention o... by nephanth on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:53AM (#27493604)
On the storage capacity
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Re:FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention o... by carlob on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:12AM (#27434690)
We have that in Italy too, but at least that means that ripping CDs or DVDs is entirely legal. It's actually called private copy contribution.
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Re:FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention o... by nephanth on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:59AM (#27435304)
Yep it actually came from Germany, and was afterward adopted by a lot of european countries
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Re:FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention o... by drw85 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:02AM (#27435335)
Germany has that too. Even on paper, since you could copy pages under copyright.
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Re:FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention o... by simondotau on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:13PM (#27442735)
Honestly, I'd take that trade. A narrow, stupid tax is definitely the lesser of two evils here. (Especially as it means I'd have a moral license to pirate whatever I wish!)
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