Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid State Media By 2000%

Re:Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid Stat... by rplnt on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @06:43AM (#4073117)

What country you do live in? I'm just curious where this doesn't exist. In Slovakia (and also Czech Rep.) you have to pay for empty hard drives, DVDs, ... But pirating movies/music isn't illegal so I guess it evens out?

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Re:Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid Stat... by macspoofing on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @08:11AM (#4073311)

>But pirating movies/music isn't illegal so I guess it evens out?

I don't live in Slovakia or the Czech Republic but I'm just going to go ahead and say you're wrong.

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Re:Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid Stat... by lvh on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @10:25AM (#4073984)

In many countries, downloading (which I assume GP means by "pirating") is fine, redistribution is not. Example: the Netherlands, where the govt. has recently affirmed that not only is it legal, it will remain so: https://torrentfreak.com/dutch-parliament-downloading-movies...

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Re:Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid Stat... by H4wk_cz on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @11:02AM (#4074212)

I do live in Czech Republic and it's not illegal to download music and movies. However, sharing is illegal, so e.g. torrents are illegal.

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Re:Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid Stat... by dalore on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @10:19AM (#4073952)

I live in the UK.

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