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Old 02-20-2012, 03:57 PM   #77
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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?
Why does it matter? They get some compensation. And you argument was that libraries give some compensation. The situation belongs to the same category.
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