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Originally Posted by HarryT
I would be extremely surprised if the private copying exemption were to be reversed. What's far more likely is that there'll be some kind of compensation arrangement for rights-holders, as already happens in several other EU countries.
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" tax should be applied to blank media including blank CDs, hard drives, memory sticks and other blank media."
So my new PC will be charged extra for the 900 GB hard disc ?
But Dropbox isn't in the UK so it's free.
Which proposal has been round two or three times already in the UK (once before 1995) and failed every time because the media to be taxed, from cassette tape and DAT onwards, was also used for plain backup of digital data.