<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:36 PM, <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">On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 03:30:15PM +0200, David Arcos wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:24 PM, <<a href="mailto:pp@christian-hufgard.de">pp@christian-hufgard.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > And like with levies on other media, a tax on the internet access would<br>
> > take a lot of wind from the lawyers - at least in germany.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> But not in Spain.<br>
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</div>Why not?</blockquote><div><br>Because of the Spanish mindset.<br><br>In example: last month the government to put a tax in our internet access to pay for the deficit of the public TV (RTVE)<br>Most people complained, but I haven't heard any lawyer yet. <br>
<br><br></div><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">
> > So if in spain copying everything is legal and no levies have to be paied,<br>
> > what is the problem, you want to solve?<br>
> ><br>
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> In Spain we have to pay a levy ("SGAE's canon") for blank CDs, DVDs, SD<br>
> cards, cellphones, libraries, etc, and they want to put yet another levy in<br>
> our ISP access. So we have a real menace here :(<br>
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</div><br>Like I said, if this menace would prevent downloaders from being hunted by the police, I'd pay it.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>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...<br>
<br>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.<br>