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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Seeing how the ruling ended, I would say it was legal. If it would have violated any pre existing rights according to law, the outcome might have been different. Especially in Germany where taking away rights is very complicated to do. I personally still have a german drivers licence that will not expire - even though newly issued drivers licences do expire.
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But would Germany support more rights for the consumer or more rights for the publisher.
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Because it is so much easier to make duplicates. Blank cassette tapes have (at least they used to) a special tax on them that reimburses the music industry because of potentially being able to make copies of music for personal use. Blank audio cds had that too - not sure if data only cd-r had that tax as well.
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Isn't that tax on every storage option that the consumer has?