[Pulpmeister]

Let me see. If everyone has to pay shedloads of money on their purchase of discs and other removable media to cover the losses caused by piracy and private copying, surely they've then paid for whatever they have taken from pirate sites, and it's now legal?

"M'lud, my client has paid some $500 in "copying fees" through the government to the industry. Surely any downloads, up to the value of that payment, is not piracy nor illegal copying, but paid for already and hence legal? My client does not have a case to answer."

Sounds like fun.

Oh, and is there likely to be a refund or rebate for those who, like me, use as much as 90 percent of their CDs, DVDs, thumb drives etc for their own material? I have tens of thousands of photos, and countless gigabytes of my own video, on such media as backup.