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

[pp at christian-hufgard.de]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 03:50:57PM +0200, David Arcos wrote:
> > Why not?
> 
> Because of the Spanish mindset.
> 
> In example: last month the government to put a tax in our internet access to
> pay for the deficit of the public TV (RTVE)
> Most people complained, but I haven't heard any lawyer yet.

Ok... That's bad... But happens with other taxes in germany too. 
 
> > > 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.
> >
> 
> It's unethical, because these money goes to SGAE. Only a minor part of the
> artists adhered to SGAE get the money, of course. And, since "everybody is a
> creator", there are lots of artists who get nothing from this levy. By the
> way, SGAE is supposed to be a non-profit organization...
> 
> We could discuss what would happen if the money went to the government, who
> redistributed it fairly, and encouraged the creation of new cultural works.
> But that's not the case.

So I think, we should get the discussion started. :)

Christian