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Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:02:47 -0000 |
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Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> In gnu.misc.discuss David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> All countries putting a levy on empty media and copying "contributors"
>> (like hard disks, computers and so on) have distributing schemes in
>> place based on estimates of circulation. Germany does, and most EC
>> countries likely as well.
>
>> A nuisance for people who buy computing equipment for computing
>> purposes, or blank media for backups of their own data.
>
> Last time I bought a pack of DVD+RWs, they cost less than 1 euro per
> disk. The levy on them truly cannot be anything more than a slight
> nuisance.
<URL:http://www.gema.de/fileadmin/inhaltsdateien/musiknutzer/tarife/tarife_sonstige/Tarif_Rohlinge.pdf>
Für die Zeit ab dem 01.01.2010 auf der Grundlage von §§ 54, 54a UrhG
Produkt Vergütung je Stück
CD-R €0,062
CD-RW €0,197
DVD+/-R 4,7 GB €0,139
DVD+/-RW 4,7 GB €0,271
DVD-RAM 4,7 GB €0,550
DVD-RAM 9,4 GB €1,264
DVD Double Sided 9,4 GB €0,117
DVD Double Layer / Dual Layer 8,5 GB €0,386
Blu-ray 25 GB II. €3,473
So your "slight nuisance" makes about a third of your price tag.
Drives and PCs are taxed separately.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, (continued)
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Tim Smith, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Tim Smith, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Hadron, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Hadron, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Tim Smith, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Ben Pfaff, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Hadron, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Hadron, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08