Warp wrote:
>   Recordable media gets taxed for potential music piracy. This money goes
> to the music industry. Recordable media does not get taxed for potential
> software piracy, and the software industry doesn't get a dime from this.
>   The authors of the music IP get paid part of these taxes for doing
> absolutely nothing, software authors don't get any such free payments.
> 

OTOH our copyright law says that we're allowed to copy copyrighted music 
(only for personal usage only, naturally - and practically if breaking 
the copy protection ain't hard*) in extense of the media-fee - but not 
to copy copyrighted software.

*) The same law announces that it's illegal to break a technically 
effective copy protection. After that the very same law announces that 
*any* action made by the record company to stop copying the music is 
considered technically effective. So literally that "#!"#!"#!#!** law 
says that if the case holds a "please don't copy this" -text printed on 
it, it's a technically effective copy protection. Luckily practical 
justice overrides this with common sense and technically effective 
really means technically effective.

**) I'm not against copyrights or copyright laws mainly. I'm just 
against our quartelry-prethinked halfly-written, technically retarded 
copyright law.

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