Copyright Industry Demands a Pay of Levies for every XBox Playstation Sold

Posted by Cash On on 2013-06-14 0

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The copyright industry has decreed in Sweden that it will now collect levies for every XBox and Playstation sold – about €10 ($12) per unit. This levy is the “blank media” levy, originally used to compensate for private music copying from vinyl records to blank cassettes, that has crept over all boundaries.
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The demand which hits the Swedish market yesterday is said to have a legal backing. But It is hard, not to say impossible, to justify the fairness in a single mother having to pay a levy to the richest rock stars when she buys a Playstation for her kids
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