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Carlos Ayala wrote:
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De: Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rick@piratpartiet.se"><rick@piratpartiet.se></a><br>
Enviado: martes, 25 de marzo, 2008 23:44:29<br>
> In all this talk about levies, I have yet to see somebody answer
the fundamental questions:<br>
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> Why is who is going to be compensated for what, and how?<br>
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Actually I made the same question -except for the <span
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to be found out <span style="font-style: italic;">why</span>-; and
you're right, nobody has answered. Maybe because the answer is no,
maybe because there is nothing to be compensated.<br>
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I agree that before we can start talking about levies, we have to
consider these fundamental questions. And I like how Rick actually asks
four questions in such a short sentence.<br>
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in the case that someone would be able to find <span
style="font-style: italic;">why</span> levies should be paid -and as
you said nobody could up to now-, according to civil law the
requirement for a fair way to distribute the levies -i.e.: only paying
the ones who would be causing the loss, and only receiving the ones who
would be suffering the loss- is mandatory. If levies are not
distributed according to such principles, there is no room for them;
and if for levies to be distributed according to such principles, civil
rights and liberties have to be compromised, it becomes certainly
unbearable.<br>
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I can give you an example from Denmark on how levies are unfairly
distributed. If you buy a digital camera with a removable memory stick
you have to pay a levy of DKK <font face="Verdana">4.51. The argument
is that the memory stick can be removed from the camera and used in a
mp3-player. The music industry gets the money. Although the memory
stick can clearly be used for photographs (that is what it is sold
for!), the photographers do not see a dime. Although our copyright law
has had a clause saying the the minister of culture can investigate if
the money is fairly distributed ever since the levy system was
introduced, no minister of culture has ever dared do it. The system is
simply too rotten.<br>
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And just as bad: Even if I buy memory media with content on it, I have
to pay the levy if the memory media can be erased. And each time I
erase the media I have to pay the levy again. And I have to be
registered as a blank media producer before I am even allowed to erase
the memory media (otherwise they cannot check if I really pay the levy
each time I erase the media. This is fortunately not (yet!) enforced
against private citizens. The reason for this dates about 15 years back
to a time where the levy for VHS tapes was so high that people stopped
buying blank VHS tapes and instead started buying VHS tapes with
movies, as they were cheaper and it is quite easy to rease the movie to
make space for your home videos.<br>
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So every time I erase the pictures in my digital camera I formally have
to pay DKK 4.51 to the music industry.<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
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Ole Husgaard.<br>
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