CDR: Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

Tom Vogt tom at ricardo.de
Fri Sep 8 02:10:55 PDT 2000


David Honig wrote:
> >not quite right. it is NOT the government that collects, and this is not
> >a tax. there's a "non-profit" organisation called GEMA that collects and
> >re-distributes these things.
> 
> So if you don't pay GEMA who *are* those folks with the guns?

GEMA will most likely sue you. but since GEMA isn't the government,
that's a civil case.






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