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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
And don't forget that a lot of blank media is bought which will never be filled with any pirated stuff... (media is cd's, dvd's, hdd's, mp3 players, tablets: in short everything that can hold data)
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Absolutely. Which is why really local authors are the only people who like that idea - users, many of whom will not pirate anything (especially users who are content creators themselves - amateur photographers, musicians, home video enthusiasts, in other words people who buy and use a lot of blank media), certainly don't necessarily like the idea, and the people who have the most to lose, i.e. foreign content creators, get nothing.
And at the same time, having to pay a levy on blank media, for the express purpose of compensating content creators for pirated stuff, makes it rather more difficult for the users to accept why they
shouldn't pirate or download without permission - after all, they're already taxed for it, they're already paying for it whether they do it or not, the state seems to have given a tacit permission (and even expectation) that it will be done, so ... you know, why not just do it?