Schmidt András ha scritto:
Richard Reichenbacher wrote:
No direspect or anything but that's probably the dumbest tax I've
ever heard of.
In Hungary there is tax on every _empty_ Compact Disc and DVD. The
concept is that you will store warez mp3 on them. So when I archive my
personal photos or software projects I pay tax for the recording
companies.
I don't know the current state but there was rumour about extending
the tax on all storage devices (including hard disks and flash pen
drives). Inside the EU it is legal to import gadget from any country
from inside the EU without paying taxes. So these devices can be
bought in the surrounding countries cheaper.
You can disrespect it. It is a really dumb kind of tax :-).
US people may say it is stupid, but at least there are no software
patents here yet :-).
SA
Oh, in Italy there are no software patents but there is a stupid tax
like that in Hungary, a tax that you pay on each thing which has the
ability to store datas (empty CDs, HDDs,...), that's because you could
"potentially" store something like illegal MP3s, illegal videos and
pirated copy of anything, so that tax is made (if i can remember well)
to refound the damage that anyone is subject. So, the logic will say
that if you pay that tax you CAN copy anything and download anything
legal or not from the internet, you are paying for that, but no, you
can't. Yeah, it's a stupid tax but hey you COULD do an illegal use of
the storage media....
Cya
Pietro
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