Christian, here is an idea: if you want a cultural flatrate, that is, impose a tax for sustaining culture, impose that tax on "original" copies, not on internet, not on blank CDs/DVDs, not on MP3 players, not on computers, don't impose the tax directly on every citizen and also don't impose the tax on the government (because then every citizen would be paying that tax).<br>
<br>Apply the tax on the "original" copies, tax cinema tickets, tax music albums avaible on stores, tax DVDs, tax concert tickets, tax books, tax cable tv.<br><br>You want a tax? then pay it, but I won't.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Christian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pp@christian-hufgard.de">pp@christian-hufgard.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Reinier Bakels wrote:<br>
>> I think that we have the same targets - but try to reach it on<br>
>> different ways. You want to take away levies "shall the artists find a<br>
>> better way to live from". I want to show them, that there are other<br>
>> ways. And to make them the change easier, I will give them money from<br>
>> a "flatrate".<br>
><br>
> Join the record maffia and don't bother me here. become an "intellectual<br>
> property" lawyer and get VERY rich.<br>
<br>
</div>'cmon man. Not that record again...<br>
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