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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Alexandre Dulaunoy <a...@foo.be> wrote: > 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 > -- -- Vincent Jamart DBA/UNIX Systems engineer http://www.vjamart.com vincent.jamart[at]gmail.com GPG: 0x56CCCC26
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