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Originally Posted by yagiz
Obviously that tax only applies to the US citizens  . What prevents us (the rest of the world) to hook on to those free download servers? |
Of course this new copyright tax system needs to be worldwide. I think it is very fair, so surely even China and Russia will gladly participate as well. They only need to pay according to their income, since their income levels are much lower than US and European personal income, they will pay much less in arts tax.
This new art tax needs to be part of the upcoming New Bretton Woods agreement that Obama and other world leaders are going to be working on as a part of the new international economic recovery plan.
Basically put, it makes no sense to sue children for using BitTorrent and Emule. And it makes no sense to try to stop the darknets, and it's impossible to force everyone in using the same DRM. Simply put, pay intellectual propriety through taxes.
This proposition isn't insane. We already pay for TV, radio, libraries, museums, galleries, sculptures and other common good through taxes in many developed countries. This proposition is simply extending this to include all forms of art freely traded over the Internet. It's basically "free trade" with that specific definition on the word free.