Comments on: EU says No to copyright tax changes http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13931 p2pnet.net - reader powered Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:27:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13931/comment-page-1#comment-208101 Reader's Write Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:12:58 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13931#comment-208101 That's right, tax every possible device because it could potentially store music. What an intelligent concept. With policies like this, why do artists / record companies need to produce content? oh, i forgot, they already produce junk. Nevermind, they still get payed for it. Great incentive! While we are on the subject; What about other copyright owners? authors, picture artists, software developers? Are they also compensated? Not likely. The music industry is given priority over everything. Could the laws be more prejudiced? That’s right, tax every possible device because it could potentially store music. What an intelligent concept. With policies like this, why do artists / record companies need to produce content? oh, i forgot, they already produce junk. Nevermind, they still get payed for it. Great incentive!

While we are on the subject; What about other copyright owners? authors, picture artists, software developers? Are they also compensated? Not likely. The music industry is given priority over everything. Could the laws be more prejudiced?

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13931/comment-page-1#comment-208008 Reader's Write Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:42:54 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13931#comment-208008 Pirating is ok, we pay tax for it so if we dont pirate we pay all kinds of shady people for nothing in return.. since we pay the artists unwillingly we have the right to their works imo. Pirating is ok, we pay tax for it so if we dont pirate we pay all kinds of shady people for nothing in return.. since we pay the artists unwillingly we have the right to their works imo.

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