[advocacy] Trading of 'pirated' music online is wider than ever (my quotes)

[Thomas Kirk]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:45:32PM -0400, Krishna E. Bera wrote:

> We already have this, in Canada anyway, and worse -

So do we here in Denmark!

> the public has been judged guilty /a priori/ and extra-judicially.
> There is a small surcharge added to the cost of blank tapes and CDs,

This is not a small fee/surcharge here in denmark blank cds are twice
the price they where before the "doomed-to-pay-tax" and actually they
are talking about putting another "tax" on small memorysticks like the
ones one use for digital cameras etc etc. In denmark alot of people
are trying to get ride of these taxes but so fare no luck.

> that is supposed to go to authors and musicians.  I think some of the
> fee goes to government Arts grants, but it's just not the same as if
> they were to set up an infrastructure where artists could publish
> cheaply and actually make a living independently thru fan sales.


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Thomas Kirk
ARKENA
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of careful development."
(By dmeggins at aix1.uottawa.ca)

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