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Spain Adds 'Copyright Tax' to Blank Media

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the angry-geeks dept.

Poker Forums writes "Just read on Zeropaid that Spain has recently voted in compulsory copyright licensing, levying a tax on all blank media. This includes cd-r, dvd-r, flash media, printers, scanners, cell phones, everything. The tax will be collected by the government and 'given to the copyright holder.'"

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  1. Re:This underlines the problem with copyright thef by topham · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    I'll give you a hint as to the most significant ways a retail outlet loses inventory... it isn't by shoplifting and walking out the front door.

    It goes home with the employees.

    So remind me again why I walk through those shoplifting detectors? Especially since thy get set off every 3 minutes in some stores for almost no reason.

  2. Re:How to change a digital system? by triffid_98 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Sign me up right now. My government has been borrowing against my future and my 3 year old kid's future to finance futile wars and corporate handouts since um, 1981.

    GWB is all pissed off about these dictators that his g*damned daddy helped put into power as head of the CIA. That won't be on Fox news later, but it's still true. Maybe if he'd joined the Marines instead of the Women's Auxiliary Balloon Corps he might have some second thoughts about all of this retardo-mon BS

    In a digital age where we are dealing with Intellectual Property, digitial censorship and hidden taxes it makes me wonder just what excatly a revolt or revolution against it would be like? I can't imagine thousands of people marching through the streets finding government officals and decapating them, but you would think we will eventually get to a point where everything just gets too much.