Thread: Europe's dysfunctional private copying levy to remain (Ars Technica)
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Old 01-10-2010, 10:03 AM   #1
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Europe's dysfunctional private copying levy to remain (Ars Technica)
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If you live in Belgium, you could pay a whopping levy of €178 on your inkjet multifunction machine to cover all your "private copying." But in Germany, you could pay €12 on the same printer. An effort to reform the madness has just broken down.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...m_campaign=rss

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There's something I've been wondering about for a while now. If you pay a tax to cover your private copying, does that mean the copies you make are legal? Can you distribute them? I see that tax as having paid for the privilege to be a pirate. Am I wrong, and if so, why?
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