[pp.int.general] cultural flatrate: PP position?

[pp at christian-hufgard.de]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 03:18:31PM +0200, Félix Robles wrote:
> As I said I don't have much time but:
> 
> Here in Spain what you call "illegal copy" is LEGAL. Yeah, LEGAL. I don't
> have time now to debate the proposition of a cultural tax, but I will state
> again that I'm not trying to be "cool", I'm just saying that the only way to
> prevent millions of people from copying copyrighted material for free
> through the internet is... closing internet. It's not an argument, it's not
> a proposition like your cultural tax, just a technological fact to consider.

And like with levies on other media, a tax on the internet access would take a lot of wind from the lawyers - at least in germany.

So if in spain copying everything is legal and no levies have to be paied, what is the problem, you want to solve?


Christian