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UK can finally 'legalise home taping' without bringing in daft new tax

Flocke Kroes Silver badge

The government gave a specific reason when they created the exemption

When I buy the right to listen to some music it makes no difference to the musician what technology I use to listen to that music. The musician has not lost anything, so the correct amount of compensation is 0. That was the government's clearly stated reason for the lack of compensation from the beginning.

Thanks to this ruling, we must now fund a quango to calculate how much each musician deserves and not pay them because the research ate the entire budget to arrive at a long list of zeroes.

Time for Orlowski to demonstrate the value of a compensation scheme. Lets see financial details of the existing compensation organisations: how much they collect and the amount - if any - that reaches musicians directly and not spent on their behalf on tasks like pointless litigation and lobbying for more pork.

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