<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/10/29 Amelia Andersdotter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:teirdes@gmail.com">teirdes@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 10/29/2010 10:38 AM, PPI Info wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Hello,<br>
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I would like to call to your attention the recent decision of the
European Court of Justice. The Pirate Parties can be an organizer
of the class action against the collecting societies. This can
also link you to the business and get support from it, and it cal
bring milions of euros for the Pirate Parties. It is worth a try.<br>
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Well. In this debate, do we want to make ourselves a wedge between
cultural industries and other industries, rather than
representatives of the people?<br>
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it would be more fruitful to focus our political attention to
innovation in the creative industry business models - separate that
industry from other industries and look at how it's managing itself,
with or without the help of other industries or consumers.<br>
<br></div></blockquote></div><br>And, perhaps, demonstrate that "blank tape tax" is not fair for people in general. Becouse these tax are only to sustain the obsolete business model of copyright industry.<br>
<br>"You have a copy machine, you infringe copyright!"<br><br>Is an argument that does not take into account the principle of presumption of innocence. but apparently this does not be applied to "tax politics" becouse I think the product or service object of a "tax politics" is CLEAR defined, that does not hapen with "a possible copyright infringement". By this, the same argument:<br>
<br>"You are a book importer, but you CAN import smuggling hided, so you need pay a extra import tax to compensate the POSSIBLE tax lack."<br><br>You can respond: "POSSIBLE, I will pay you, wait my POSSIBLE check"<br>
<br>This is not fair in general, not only for a part of industry. And looks like a "culture tax" that makes culture more expensive for all.<br><br>But, I don't know if is a good idea defend a part of industry against other part.<br>
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