On Sep 24, 5:47 pm, voodoo <voo...@tootycar.net> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:08:53 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:51:33 +0200, Alexander Terekhov <terek...@web.de> > > wrote: > > >>http://www.techeye.net/software/stallman-calls-for-an-end-to-file- > sharing-war > > >>"Stallman calls for an end to file sharing war > > >>Pizza in our time > > >>23 Sep 2010 11:31 | by Nick Farrell | posted in Software > > >>Open sauce guru Richard Stallman has called for everyone to get off file > >>sharing's case and has come up with some weirdie beardie advice as to > >>how the entertainment industry can make money without charging anyone. > > >>According to IT News, Stallman claimed that artists and musicians were > >>"not entitled to" compensation from listeners, but governments could > >>introduce a tax to support their work. > > > They tried this one already and it failed. > > > The consumer DAT recorders and tape had a tax built into them to help > > compensate artists whose work was going to obviously be copied digital > > to digital. > > how much of that money made its way to the artists? any? > canada has a setup like that. no reports of disbursements yet.
See http://www.gema.de/fileadmin/inhaltsdateien/verein/Verteilungsplan_JB_08_09.pdf for distribution of such levies in Germany. Note that GEMA is not a branch of government and the system of levies does not undo the system of copyright (that is what Stallman wants). regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss