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

[pp at christian-hufgard.de]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 03:30:15PM +0200, David Arcos wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:24 PM, <pp at christian-hufgard.de> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> But not in Spain.

Why not?

> > So if in spain copying everything is legal and no levies have to be paied,
> > what is the problem, you want to solve?
> >
> 
> In Spain we have to pay a levy ("SGAE's canon") for blank CDs, DVDs, SD
> cards, cellphones, libraries, etc, and they want to put yet another levy in
> our ISP access. So we have a real menace here :(

Like I said, if this menace would prevent downloaders from being hunted by the police, I'd pay it.


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