"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> > If you do take the context it is clear that Darren is using Pirate Bay
> > to signal that now persons can be held responsible for things on their
> > server if they can know that it may be violating copyrights.

>   I wonder how long it will take before copyright holders will stop
chasing
> individuals and instead lobby western governments to impose huge taxes on
> internet connections which everybody must pay (regardless of whether they
> download music illegally or not), the money going to the music industry.
>
>   After they tax the internet, they will start taxing everything that can
> contain data, such as, rather obviously, mp3 players, but less obviously
> memory cards, usb sticks, cellphones, hard disks, CD-R(W)s, DVD-R(W)s,
etc.

I'm not sure if it's tongue in cheek, especially since Finland already has
that for CDs and DVDs. Blank media levies and taxes on audio recorders have
been implemented since the days of the tape recorder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_media_tax

>   After that they will start taxing everything that can *transfer* data,
> even if it can't *store* it. This will include things like ADSL modems,
> network cards, routers, usb hubs, wlan access points...
>
>   After that they will be start taxing people for the sole reason that
> they *might* listen to music illegally.
>
>   Am I exaggerating here? I'm not. In Finland they are trying to pass a
> law that will make every single household in Finland have to pay a "media
> tax". Yes, this will include people who are deaf or blind (or both), and
> people with no TV, internet or even computers. And this regardless of how
> much money they earn. This has caused a huge amount of protest here.

I cannot blame copyright holders for trying to protect their interests. It's
the freeloaders that are ruining it for everybody. If content creators are
not able to sustain a living in the free market, we will end up with arts
that needs to be fully supported by the government, in which case it will
all come out of your income tax directly.

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