Re:This is a good thing. (Score 1)

In italy we had the same tax introduced some years ago. But they didn't forget to tax every mass storage media. so we can't just spare money buying hard drives.. they are taxed too! The good news is that prices of blank disks didn't increase as much as I expected, because of illegal parallel importation from other countries of europe without the same tax that leveled prices in shops. I believe producers of blank media had a huge profits loss. now that the same tax is being introduced in other EU countries it will be a bit more difficult to get low cost blank medias.Anyway I don't think it's a right tax, because everyone pays for crimes only few do: piracy. It's like giving a month in jail for everyone 'cause just a few minority breaks the law! statistical justice! Paying for something we didn't commit it's a strange definition of justice!