CDR: Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

Adam Langley agl at linuxpower.org
Wed Sep 6 10:54:18 PDT 2000


On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:27:53AM -0400, David Honig wrote:
>      BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is planning to slap new
>      levies on computer, telecommunications and Internet
>      products to ensure that authors are properly rewarded for
>      the use of their work, a newspaper said Wednesday.

Is this really a bad thing? Music is becomming a public service. When author
cannot control their works (as is happening now) the works basically become
a public service - and the way public services are funded is by govt taxes. If
they stop trying (and failing) to control content and just use this - well
it's not perfect - but it's better than a DMCA/UCITA world.

My worry is that they distribute this money only to the big record companies
and screw the 'real musicians'

AGL

-- 
I never let my schooling get in the way of my education.
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