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Originally Posted by darryl
This type of provision does make sense in the context of some sort of levy on blank media. The exclusion of whole books also makes sense in this context, unless the levy extends to hard disk space as well as blank media, an unlikely scenario. I am not surprised at the existence of this type of provision where there is a levy, and your assumption about similar "exceptions" in other countries with a levy may well be correct. What I am a little surprised about is the apparent extent of the exception. I would be surprised to see another provision extending to even close friends. Though I have been surprised before. It is a matter of where the line should be drawn.
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Actually the levy applies to computers with a hard disk. See:
http://www.copyswede.se/in-english/u...-levy-rates-2/
I would find it very strange if this exception was restricted to only family. Then the motivation seems to be that we cannot stop that so we will allow it. But with that reasoning we should allow pirating since we cannot stop it.
No the motivation for the law is that people share and discus things like music with a few persons (which might be family or close friends). And that considered to be a good thing and the law like to allow this. Then it seems a bit absurd to me to restrict this to only family when the behavior of sharing in this way is mostly between close friends. And why should people without a family not be allowed to share music and talk about it?