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- Germans purchasing a new Personal Computer will have to pay 12 Euro (~$16,-) copyright fee. This is due to the outcome of a lawsuit between VG Wort rights society, an organisation that is seeking compensation for digital copying, and Fujitsu Siemens, a computer builder.
That sounds like the royalties blank cassettes are charged. If this ends the whole copyright/downloading music controversy its great. Pay the levy and download away.
Apart from the fact they cant spell :rolleyes:
Its yet again a presumption of guilt placed upon the user by the courts after all who is to repudiate the fact all the items burnt by the user do not already carry a prepaid licence fee so in effect they are getting charged twice.Quote:
for lost royalties from private copying of music, images and moves.