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- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -1/+80This is sweet,
if you buy cd's with pirate tax you have a legal right to use them for piracy. - inactive, on 06/14/2008, -0/+37Seed please.
- hinmanj, on 06/14/2008, -0/+29Since you can't tax something illegal... then pirating must be legal! yay! That beats the chewbaca defense!
- thinman1189, on 06/14/2008, -3/+28Oh, the irony.
- E9437, on 06/14/2008, -5/+25***** THE RIAA!!!
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -3/+20Making something illegal doesn't make it morally wrong.
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***** you. - inactive, on 06/14/2008, -1/+15I'll be checking this album out tomorrow... even if the music isn't great this guy deserves our support.
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -3/+13Why the quotes around "family photos"? I don't need to call Chris Hansen do I?
- Cornloaf, on 06/14/2008, -0/+10.04 crowns per Megabyte
800 Meg CD-R = 32 crowns = 5.26 USD
8 G iPod = 327.68 crowns = 53.85 USD
Maybe they can bury that into the purchase of an MP3 player but there is no way that they are paying an extra $5.26 per blank CD-R in Sweden. - inactive, on 06/14/2008, -1/+11lol, CDR? Thats like taxing sunglasses to pay for highway maintenance
- Abomonog, on 06/14/2008, -0/+6No such tax in America. I kind of like the idea, though.
I wouldn't mind paying a few extra pennies per CD if such a tax ensured that file sharing remained undisturbed.
That actually a pretty fair trade if you think about it. - iJessicaRabbit, on 06/14/2008, -4/+10Lemons to lemonade :) I can digg that
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -0/+6That's what one might think, but interestingly enough it's still illegal here (in the nordic countries at least, where the pirate tax is on all media). The tax is on EVERYTHING that can store data, including computer hard drives, digital TV receivers, etc. And then you're not even allowed to use the storing space properly.
- jedinate, on 06/14/2008, -1/+6I haven't burned music to a CD in years. Between my PSP/PS3, my pc, and streaming through my TiVo, my music gets where it needs to go without being put on physical media.
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -1/+5If anybody's curious about the what genre or mood this album is, to me so far it seems to be kind of mellow, background, music. Would definitely go well with cocktails and snooty conversation.
- digitaldivinci, on 06/14/2008, -2/+6I was actually meaning burning music. Good try.
- ultrafez, on 06/14/2008, -0/+4I think it would be understandable if they added 0.04 crowns to every CD-R sold, but adding 0.04 to every MB? That's just insane, how do they get away with adding that money to the purchase of a CDR?
- sERIALeATER, on 06/14/2008, -2/+7Hi, new to digg?
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -0/+4it goes to show that this tax is unfair, and that artists should be compensated only for actual actions not possible actions.
- Tyrghast, on 06/14/2008, -1/+4Articles like this make me smile on the inside. +1 Hope for humanity!
- blitz718, on 06/14/2008, -0/+3buried for innacuracy
- Seth024, on 06/14/2008, -1/+4So if you can prove that you used your CDR to store something legal (like family photos), can you ask your few cents back?
- yetAnotherCroc, on 06/14/2008, -0/+3they dont. I have never seen a cdr that expensive here. i think TFA had that part wrong.
- freedomwv, on 06/15/2008, -0/+2You can still do all of those things and at the same time embrace the new digital age. Just look at what NIN was able to do. Trent was able to offer his music over the internet in a free for all manner and still make a killing all the way to the bank.
- kesma594, on 06/14/2008, -0/+2The funny thing is Mr. Suitcases move makes me one to buy one of his CD's !
- bbliss17, on 06/14/2008, -0/+2That is cool
dont think cd'r are going to be around much longer. People may buy them for odds and ends but more and more people just buy an ipod and have an itrip so they can listen to there music in there vehicle and not have to burn cd's. This would of actually worked 5-8 years ago when everyone burned music. - artfiend77, on 06/14/2008, -1/+4Shut up, Prince.
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -1/+3It's not really a "pirate album" if he is giving it away for free :S
But good on him (y) - Myztry, on 06/14/2008, -0/+2But did he make any Data Backups to compensate for the Data Backup tax?
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -0/+2Ok I stand corrected he is nicking other peoples work, go for it!
- RoccoMcTaco, on 06/14/2008, -0/+2Heard it last night. It's meh.
Should probly hear it again without having high expectations from the hype though. - digitaldivinci, on 06/14/2008, -3/+5Does this apply for the US as well by any chance? I've bought my share of CDr's for "family photos", but I wouldn't mind knowing that they still get something.
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -0/+2Poetic justice at it's finest. Now if we could use the gas taxes here in America to purchase electric cars we could match them.
- fr3ddie, on 06/14/2008, -1/+3***** cds... hard drives and wifi are the new CD.
- mathchristo, on 06/14/2008, -1/+3Hi all,
Well as i can see, France is not the only country to tax people for file sharing lol. I guess this is another idiot tax and all rules trying to fight against what governments calls piracy is a waste of energy and an accelerator of difficulties for the music and movie industry.. Here in France ISP are tracing IPs to denounce people to cops lol.. And once you are caught, you receive a warning email and at the second time your ISP cut your access lol... Thank you Mr Sarkozy ...
I guess the best way is to use streaming and commercials to find a solution to make everybody happy.. lol - bbliss17, on 06/14/2008, -1/+2I agree with you. I would pay extra if they would leave us elite alone!
- KevinJim, on 06/14/2008, -1/+2Just take Sweden and move it to Greece. There you go, a paradise. Awesome: wheather, seas, chicks, education, medical system. Also feel free to share.
- arjie, on 06/14/2008, -3/+3I agree completely. However, music albums aren't that expensive.
In any case, once you move off the beaten track (mainstream musicians) you can find very good music for very cheap. Some local bands will even just burn you an album if you find them, or they'll give you a copy for cheap if you buy it at some concert.
Or you can buy off places like Amie Street, which give most of the proceeds straight to the artist (60%, 70%? I forget). There really is no excuse to not pay for your music, provided it comes in a DRM-free high quality format. If the music is available only in a format encumbered with DRM, avoid it.
I technically pirate music too, because I have downloaded most of the songs that I already have on tape. But I wouldn't download music that I haven't paid for in some form before, and expecting that is too much. I pay for books, why wouldn't I pay for music? And you know how I pay for my music? I work. I've just graduated, but I worked (at one time 8 hours on weekends, not including a 2-hour commute either way) to pay my fees and to feed my rather extravagant lifestyle when I was in college majoring in Math. This is nothing special where I live, even the girl I'm with calls me lazy because she does even more.
As someone with a reasonable music collection, I can tell you that I can add a new Amie Street album every day, or a new CD every few days without there being a dent in my pocket. At the incredibly low rates, there is no excuse not to buy music. In this case, I would say the law is roughly in line with morals (though the copyright term is way too long). Of course I have incredible respect for people who release works under Creative Commons, and for people like this artist. - ATLien74, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1So, since I'm a musician, where can I sign up to get my cut of the pirate tax?
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -1/+2I just finished the whole album, would of been done sooner but I took various breaks from listening to it. Since the tracks don't have names, one song has many different elements, and songs seem to flow together it's hard to single out one track as the best or another as the weakest. This stream of continuousness kind of music appears to me to be in the spirit of Artist like Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead.
My initial inkling that the whole album would be mellow and downbeat was wrong, about halfway through the tempo picks up, but none of the songs are what you would call danceable. The only song I'm sure I recognized with 100 percent accuracy was Usher's "Yeah" on track 6, but as you would expect almost all the songs had familiar elements that I just couldn't place but I knew that I heard before. - insinuate, on 06/14/2008, -2/+3Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck YOU!
- projectstartrek, on 06/15/2008, -0/+1Tell that to Spitzer:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/a-200 ... - bbliss17, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1thanks for the review and impressions
- juliend2, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1mmmm lemons
- TheOther1, on 06/14/2008, -1/+2buried - Duplicate Story
- freedomwv, on 06/15/2008, -0/+1Hell he has got a good point. I like all the things that can be done with the internet these days. I say download and discover all you want.
- bbliss17, on 06/14/2008, -1/+2agreed
- bbliss17, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1me as well
- cliffski, on 06/15/2008, -0/+1well said
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