Ending Copyright Could Save Art & Journalism
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The soapbox I've been on for 15 years, now summarized in 17 minutes with clipart. Probably the most important video I'll ever make. ⚠️ Rough/incomplete math ...

too bad this means only losses for the middle-men, that also pump millions into lobbying for increasingly stupid IP laws - so it’s not likely to happen :/

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    We have this in Czechia, everyone is kinda expected to pirate even though distributing (seeding & hosting) copyrighted content is illegal.

    The tariffs, collected on sale of new devices, are roughly:

    • HDDs/SSDs: $2 / unit + $1 / 250 GB
    • USB drives, phones: $1 / 16 GB
    • Portable audio/video players with built-in storage: 3 % of price
    • Printers without scanners: ~3 % of price
    • Copiers: ~6 % of price
    • CD-R: $0.02
    • CD-RW: $0.08
    • DVD±R: $0.05
    • DVD±RW/RAM, other optical RW media: $0.20
    • DVD burner: IDK, likely several dollars
    • Analog audio casette: $0.08/piece
    • Analog video casette: $0.08 (or $0.06 if under 180 min)

    Yeah, the fees are often 10 % or more of the price of an HDD. However, piracy is rampant, mostly on the site uloz.to. Every kid can use the site (advanced users can bypass rate limits or “stream” by playing a file that’s being downloaded) but I would prefer decentralized torrents. A popular Czech torrent tracker has just been shut down, anyone know any alternatives?

    • zbynaCool@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I have been using sktorrent which is quite a nice alternative because the movies have Czech dub aswell