CDR: german copyright fascism CD tax
anonymous at openpgp.net
anonymous at openpgp.net
Mon Nov 27 10:15:11 PST 2000
HP to pay antipiracy fee for CD
burners
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Computer giant
Hewlett-Packard has become the first company to be snagged
by a German law requiring firms to pay fees for making CD
burners that are being used to illegally lift the latest hits off the
World Wide Web.
The case sets the stage for other European countries to possibly
adopt similar rules to stem an epidemic that cost the music
industry an estimated $5 billion last year. But analysts blasted
the agreement reached Thursday as another example of
Germanys notorious thatch of regulations.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/crh737.htm
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