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Broadband tax headed to the UK?
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 26 January, 2009
According to a The Telegraph report, the Communication Minister in the UK, Lord Carter, is looking to add a "universal levy" to every broadband user's monthly bill that will help compensate "film and music companies for their losses from illegal downloads."
Carter also says that "the entertainment industry - which has lobbied for the fee to be introduced - estimates it will lose £1 billion ... [ read the full article ]
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beanos66
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27. January 2009 @ 19:27 |
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every penny I don't spend on cd's is a penny I'm not giving to record execs and artists to spend on coke and weed
now the goverment is going to force me to feed their habit
lord carter, junky enabler
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wiimatrix
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28. January 2009 @ 02:37 |
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@chinpark9 i think its on the 12th day of the 12th month 12/12/12
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plazma247
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28. January 2009 @ 07:04 |
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KingBasil
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1. February 2009 @ 08:36 |
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chinpark9
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1. February 2009 @ 17:47 |
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Was this fellow born a lord, or did he buy it, like all those other dogooders?
I will follow the example of my ancestors and go outside and do a raindance, Maybe, just maybe, my wishes will be answered
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blaster4
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2. February 2009 @ 11:02 |
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There is a tax on blank media here in the Netherlands, so same principle. You pay the tax and get no benefit whatsoever. It's still illegal to download stuff and burn to disc.
I just wonder who exactly is the recipient of all this collected tax money. Does the government send a million to Sony each month and a million to Warner and a million to each of the other music and film companies direct? I suppose they would need these funds to keep the stars happy and able to buy their 5th and 6th houses and to be able to keep up with the other stars by upgrading to the newest jet, or maybe buy another 2 helicopters. And surely it's time to replace their limousines, they'll need the extra money for that too.
My heart bleeds for the film and music companies when they are in such dire straits. We shouldn't really complain about this, we should instead pass the hat round for contributions. Come on now, dig deep, it's all for a good cause!
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chinpark9
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2. February 2009 @ 12:10 |
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All those of you with millions could do worse than waste your money. You could invest in a title. Scuttlebutt is, a thousand for an mbe, and going up in grades to a million + to be a lord. Or else, do it like that chap, banished to europe for having free money and a big mouth, and going to South America for his kicks, and now returned with a title ' lord something or other of somewhere or other, probably brazil. Then, armed with this ticket, just imagine the harm you could do to the grassroots, like me, whose only existence is for being trampled upon.
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jinnek45
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3. February 2009 @ 10:05 |
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Just remember this ditty,
"The working class can kiss my arse, I've got the ermine on at last."
Yes, no doubt the cleaner than clean, whiter than white Lord Carter will have had his palm greased to put this up.
Made a peer by that well known war criminal, Tony Blair,in 2004. At least no one died for that.
Best man to Jack, the commie, Straw.
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ianla
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3. February 2009 @ 10:23 |
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According to the Telegraph we've now got a government minister basically accusing every broadband and cable user in the U.K. of being a thief or potential thief.
I hope his evidence is up to scratch, because it would make one hell of a class action against her majesties government.
The way it's going we'll soon have to pay a tax to compensate the industry for not buying a cd or dvd because we think its crap.
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plazma247
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4. February 2009 @ 02:57 |
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It does seam funny that because say maybe 10% (made up figure, guess) of the population probably download the odd bit of music or film now n then and the remaining percentage wont know how to download something illegally if it hit them in the face. So then the industry have decided were all cyber terrorist hell bent on destroying their once money making business model of the 80's (post CDR's).
Now they know it?s too late, doom is on the door knocking away and waiting collect the tatters of what has been one of the biggest price fixing industries of all time. So like a cat backed to a wall trying to avoid a bath they want blood and are most likely going to draw some if it kills them, they call their entire customer base and blame it all on us.
Its like saying a few children probably hang around in bus shelters drinking diamond white at an under age, this obviously hurts the interests of a well know cola company that has lost sales due to them illegally drinking alcohol. So we should pay them back for all the fizzy pop they didn?t sell and see every child as potential threat and put a further charge on top of the alcohol everyone else drinks.
Maybe if they had spent as much on making a better business model as they had spent trying to protect the one that started to die over 15 years ago. To declare from the water flooded bowls of the ship which has now nearly sank past water line they that all is not lost is well funny to say the least.
So let them lobby and throw money away trying to get this passed, in the middle of a global credit crunch which is set to last the next 3 - 5 years, maybe by then they will have had to just give in and go the hell home and eventually just accept the inevitable truth, its over for them and was a long time ago.
Were sick of paying for the same track on yet another over priced mix CD in a different track order to the one we were sold last week. Don?t forgetting all the manufactured and regurgitated bands that get a chance when the small time hopefuls have to watch their dreams die.
Were sick of the lack of creative films where best attempts are to make yet another remake of a film that was best left as it was, how long before another badly made shark movie, I ask you.
Were sick hearing them all moan because the cash cow that was once the golden age of film and music industry got the flu and isn?t getting better.
I SAY MAYBE IT?S TIME TO CALL THE VET AND PUT IT DOWN!!
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DIGIXCESS
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7. February 2009 @ 04:54 |
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lol thats crazy!
By doing that - they're basically saying its ok to download films, music etc... because we're paying for it!
Surely they need to rethink this one
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chinpark9
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7. February 2009 @ 08:23 |
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As it happens, they think we're stupid, we think they are crooks, just about evens out, in my opinion. If it was not for the fact that they are able to holp themselves directly from our pockets, this would be a farce.So that, one of the questions must be, " Who should we have more faith in, the Lord who got there heading big business,or the one who got there by being a keen grocer, or the one who merely got there through coitus noninterruptus!!!!
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