[pp.int.general] Fwd: stance on fairsharing / culture flatrate /levys

[Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet)]

In Sweden, we're saying that the whole "right to a revenue" mindset must drop (and therefore levies). No other obsolete business has the privilege of being paid by its successor. It's remarkable that the copyright lobby has succeeded with this - no one else has:

Where is the refrigerator levy that goes to icemakers?

Where is the automobile levy for stablemen?

Where is the electricity levy for the streetlamp lighters' union?

Or perhaps most fittingly, where is the levy on soda bottles for the milkmen's association?

No business has the right to tax the public or the business that replaces it. We're saying that the levy is an obstacle to culture exchange, and that it's deeply immoral to imagine somebody having a RIGHT to get money from their replacer's business, and therefore cannot be defended from any standpoint. It needs to go.

Rick



> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Florian Hufsky
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:50
> To: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk General Talk
> Subject: [pp.int.general] Fwd: stance on fairsharing / 
> culture flatrate /levys
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we really need to get this discussion going asap.
> 
> What is the official pirate party stance on levys?
> 
> austria: yes. we already have a levy on blank media (cdr, dvdr,  
> casettes, harddrives). introduce a levy on internet connections and  
> legalize all noncommercial distribution (currently only copying is  
> legal, "making stuff avaiable" (uploading) is illegal. albet 
> all this  
> will probably change this autumn when austria works on implementing  
> EUCD).
> 
> btw; sums we're talking about: research by another party concluded  
> that a levy of merely 1,- €per internet connection per month 
> would be  
> sufficient.
> 
> other countries: ?
> 
> cheers,
> Florian
> 
> 
> 
> Piratenpartei Österreichs
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