joeg Posted October 6 Report Share Posted October 6 Swedish government sets 800% higher taxes for CD-Rs. As of January 2004 all CDRs and other optical storage medias will have 800% raised taxes to compensate the losses of the music industry.According to MTRH, DVD-Rs will have 4-5 € tax per piece, hard disks will be taxed about 1 €/GB. Even satelite recievers with HDDs will be taxed.I'm speechless. Swedish government truely went crazy. Poor swedes, but I have to hope this total madness doesn't spread to other European countries!What can possibly justify these kind of tax raises? The power of the music industry really seems to be huge. There's simply no rational justification for this kind of tax raising, so one have to wonder what some of the Swedish governement representatives pushing this have gained... -----Taken from H.A.unfortunately, the link isn't english... but i'm sure theres an english page with this info...http://idg.se/ArticlePages/200310/06/20031006094517_STU/20031006094517_STU.dbp.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix_Leiter Posted October 6 Report Share Posted October 6 this world is nutswhy dont they just waste their efforts on developing a nice, legit platform where artists and the like will get compensated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abortionator Posted October 7 Report Share Posted October 7 I think the US needs a Twinkie tax so it'll cost you more to be a fat motherfucker!! Take that tubbo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted October 7 Author Report Share Posted October 7 Originally posted by abortionator I think the US needs a Twinkie tax so it'll cost you more to be a fat motherfucker!! Take that tubbo! OWNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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