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So they tax you extra if you buy a NAS? Or any type of digital storage?
It's similar in Germany and I guess most of Europe. For any device capable of copying copyrighted material the GEMA collects royalties because it could be used legal private copies. It's currently 0,30€ for USB sticks and 13€ for PC's. They even collect fees for devices like smartwatches and printers.
This fee is explicitly not for illegal distribution of copyrighted material but only for legal private copies. It's absurd.
I'm not sure about digital storage such as cloud serviced. But for example you decide to but a new HDD/SSD you pay an extra 1.25 SEK/GiB up to a maximum of 100 SEK, or a new mobile phone that's another 4.38 SEK/GiB with no upper limit.
The reasoning behind that tax is that in Sweden you are allowed to make personal copies of media you own and apparently the movie/music industry loses to much money due to that law. So that money will go to the movie or music labels as compensation for lost revenue.
That's a tax i think I could get behind in the US if it meant I could get what I want for a price that is fair.
I buy games. I subscribe to YouTube premium for ad free access to their content and music streaming library.
I refuse to pay $200 per month for a cable tv plan that has the 4 channels I'd want to watch and 2000 I don't give a shit about. I refuse to sign up for every streaming service under the sun to cobble together what I want to watch. So I pay what I think is a fair price for a vpn subscription, a debrid service and an iptv plan.
I'm more than willing to pay, just not what they're asking me to pay.