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Originally Posted by HarryT
How does that work? How is the amount of money that each author gets decided on, I mean? With library loans, you have a direct record of the number of times each book is borrowed. If you're saying that a tax on blank media could compensate authors for piracy, how would the number of times that each book has been pirated be determined?
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Why does it matter? They get some compensation. And you argument was that libraries give some compensation. The situation belongs to the same category.