Quote:
Originally Posted by HansTWN
A "creators' surcharge on internet access, just as everybody already pays a surcharge on all storage media in Europe (the proceeds are being distributed to the media companies by a government agency).
|
Not "all" storage media, but close enough. And you know what? It's working fine, by and large. The only problem, really, is that publishers are increasingly trying to take away (by trivial technical means + making circumvention a criminal offense) the very rights (making and sharing of private copies, time and location shifting etc) this blanket tax is supposed to cover; you know, as in having your cake and eat it, too.
Quote:
|
So, if we just throw up our hands and say "we can't stop the tide", we will sign over everything to Apple, Google, etc.
|
You know, there
is the normative power of the factual. It's not our job to help the publishing industry to preserver their outdated business models, after all.