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Re:EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encr... by fer on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:58AM (#37896928)
Spain has been traditionally and particularly idiotic about tech legislation. Some examples:

- There was (and is) a fee on every CD-R, DVD-R, BR-R, hard drive, SSD, printer... as a "just in case it happens to store/copy copyright-protected material at some point ever" fee [0].

- They forced link aggregators to pay newspapers/sites for linking to their content, even just using their <og> tags. [1].

So such insane statement comes as an absolute non-surprise to anyone who's followed Spanish tech legislation for a while.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociedad_General_de_Autores_y_...

[1] https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-news-spain-faceb...

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Re:EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encr... by jeroenhd on Monday October 16, 2023 @04:02AM (#37896950)
> - There was (and is) a fee on every CD-R, DVD-R, BR-R, hard drive and SSD as a "just in case it happens to store copyright-protected material at some point ever" fee [0].

Sadly, Spain isn't the only country that does this. The copyright lobby has been very successful at making people fund their failing business model.

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Re:EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encr... by clarionbell on Monday October 16, 2023 @04:13AM (#37897003)
Yep. Unfortunately this is pretty normal. I would be fine with it, if it meant I get immunity from persecution when distributing pirated content. Unfortunately that would go against corporate rent seeking.
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Re:EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encr... by miohtama on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:02AM (#37897306)
Spain, inheriting Franco's legacy, likes their own secret internal police and abuse of power. For exampel, Madrid was using Pegasus spyware to spy Catalonian politicians and separatists

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/catalonia-ban...

From this background, it's more understandable they want to all possible methods to spy their own citizens.

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Re:EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encr... by petre on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:35PM (#37906988)
Yet the socialists were runnng the show when all of this has happened. Of course, when Pegasus is found on Pedro Sánchez's phone, they "ban" it.
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Re:EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encr... by zigzag312 on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:11AM (#37898710)
What would you say about a yearly fee per every employee, if company owns a multifunctional printer? Also in EU.
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