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The coming robot apocalypseThe coming robot apocalypsePosted Sep 13, 2012 9:24 UTC (Thu) by viiru (subscriber, #53129)In reply to: The coming robot apocalypse by tnoo Parent article: The coming robot apocalypse
> A tax on each device able to play content?
This system is in use in several countries in Europe (Finland and Sweden, for example). The results are truly horrible, and the list of devices for which the "cassette charge" applies to is ever expanding. The sharing of the proceeds is massively unfair, and the contract to join the system is draconian (the creator of the work loses the right to distribute the work on their own website, etc).
There has been discussion about replacing this system with a flat tax instead, which does not fix all of the problems but would at least be slightly less unfair.
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The coming robot apocalypse Posted Sep 13, 2012 9:47 UTC (Thu) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link] > There has been discussion about replacing this system with a flat tax> instead, which does not fix all of the problems but would at least be > slightly less unfair. Similar to what Switzerland intends to introduce for radio and TV. Since almost every electronic device could receive radio in principle, everybody owning such a device has to pay a fixed amount per year (as if one buys a computer to listen to Swiss National Radio!). This system is problematic, and will presumably changed, such that everybody will be required to pay a fixed "tax" for radio and TV, irrespective of usage. Both solutions are bad IMHO, and this is only for "national" broadcasting companies. A flat rate for content amounts to a tax, to be paid to privately owned companies, irrespective of the quality or success of their products in the market.
The coming robot apocalypse Posted Sep 13, 2012 21:21 UTC (Thu) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link]
It is not only for national broadcasting companies, private local radio stations also get their (very small) share, see http://www.bakom.admin.ch/empfangsgebuehren/03772/index.h...
The coming robot apocalypse Posted Sep 23, 2012 11:09 UTC (Sun) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]
I wouldn't care so much about a contribution on media or network usage if it were redistributed fairly to artists & other content creators/compilers.
Unfortunately, currently those "taxes" end up mostly in the pockets of private copyright management companies that pretend to work for artists, and only certain artists benefit from the leftover money (most of those companies use cut-offs on popularity that result in niche artists being disadvantaged).
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