On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Hans Fraiponts <fraipo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Peeps, Hi Hans, > > Please remember, this tax is *not* to compensate for online piracy. > This is a levy you pay for your right to backup your legally obtained > media on other devices. > This tax was on dvd's and cd's before (also a big ripoff) can you > imagine how much money was paid by open source ppl burning the latest > distro's ? Right. It's even worst because the compensation for private copy was there to balance the rights between private copy and authors. But the transposition of the EUCD (2001/29/CE) in the Belgian law (Art. 79bis. § 1er. in 22 MAI 2005. - "Loi transposant en droit belge la Directive européenne 2001/29/CE du 22 mai 2001 sur l'harmonisation de certains aspects du droit d'auteur et des droits voisins dans la société de l'information (1)") legally protects the technical measure that limits or avoids to make private copy. We are still paying for the compensation even if the law of 22 Mai 2005 disallowed you to circumvent the copy protection. There are still the exception for private copy but strongly limited by the 2001/29/CE transposition and the protection of technical measures. The compensation looks more to be a tax especially when legitimate users are now more limited in the exception to do private copy due to the legal protection of the technical measures. Just some feedback, adulau -- -- Alexandre Dulaunoy (adulau) -- http://www.foo.be/ -- http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Diary -- "Knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance -- that we can solve them" Isaac Asimov _______________________________________________ Libre mailing list Libre@lists.ael.be http://lists.ael.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libre
