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 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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