You joke, but this is actually how it works in places. As recently as 2015 we paid some % of all storage media sales (think HDDs, nvmes, flash drives, anything that can hold data really) to our RIAA equivalent to ”compensate for private copying”. Now it’s now longer baked into the prices, but they are paid directly by the government, as in through taxation.
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theterrasque@infosec.pub 11 hours agoNext logical step would be to sue producers of radios, speakers, headphones and so on, I assume. Their devices “perform” the music, after all.
And then they can sue hospitals for helping bringing new ears into the world.
jalkasieni@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Tilgare@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Love this. If the dev needs a license to play it, Steam needs a license to sell it, is it really much different for them to then sue owners for not purchasing a license to listen?