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Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We already have the private copying levy in Germany and some other countries, where you have to pay a fee for several products (printers, scanners, storage media like HDDs, SSDs, SD cards and thumb drives...) due to the potential that you could do (legal!) private copies of copyrighted media on them. The copyright collectives can set the amount of the fees freely (and it's ridiculously high).

This comes shockingly close to the concept already.

[โ€“] Deway 7 points 6 months ago

I member the good old days when we were buying our blank CD/DVD in Germany to avoid paying those taxes.