Copyright law
Copyright law
Posted Nov 13, 2020 17:07 UTC (Fri) by jem (subscriber, #24231)In reply to: Copyright law by anselm
Parent article: The RIAA, GitHub, and youtube-dl
I'm not German, but this Wikipedia article lists surcharges on DVD media, external hard drives, MP3 players, PCs, Mobile phones, set-top boxes, scanners and printers, etc.
This is a bureaucratic system, and unfair to users which don't use these products for storing copyrighted material. The system also doesn't make sense with dwindling prices per gigabyte on external media. If the charge is ~2 cents per gigabyte for CD-R, then, for the same price per byte, it ought to be 200 € for a 10 TB hard drive. How about 20000 € for some future 1 PB media? Should cloud storage also be affected?
The same system was also used in Finland until the end of 2014, at which point it was abandoned completely.