Comment Re:Very proud to be an American (Score 1) 780
just watch out what you're saying, coward.
Seeing the way you guys do elections (amongst more things) makes me happy to be a German.
Anyway. There's been several older attempts to make PC's fall under GEZ fee and all have stopped short of a legal way of doing so. This is yet another one, now with the coverage of the national press (by claiming this was actually a fact) but to tell the truth, all German people are as anti-GEZ as can be.
Many German analysts believe that collecting fees on PCs will - besides of being illegal - only lead to less income for the national TV funding. Peoples comments on this are pretty clear: Millions will claim to have sold their TV sets and not own computers to get rid of GEZ for good, myself being only one of them.
Popularity of GEZ is about at the same level as your RIAA and their methods are pretty much the same as good old Stasi, an open secret in Germany.
So, on the bottom line, there is a 50% chance that the GEZ will be stopped for good.
If you're capable of reading first level sources on the topic, this article might be quite interesting to you, coward: klik, it pretty much reflects the way people think about the matter.
Seeing the way you guys do elections (amongst more things) makes me happy to be a German.
Anyway. There's been several older attempts to make PC's fall under GEZ fee and all have stopped short of a legal way of doing so. This is yet another one, now with the coverage of the national press (by claiming this was actually a fact) but to tell the truth, all German people are as anti-GEZ as can be.
Many German analysts believe that collecting fees on PCs will - besides of being illegal - only lead to less income for the national TV funding. Peoples comments on this are pretty clear: Millions will claim to have sold their TV sets and not own computers to get rid of GEZ for good, myself being only one of them.
Popularity of GEZ is about at the same level as your RIAA and their methods are pretty much the same as good old Stasi, an open secret in Germany.
So, on the bottom line, there is a 50% chance that the GEZ will be stopped for good.
If you're capable of reading first level sources on the topic, this article might be quite interesting to you, coward: klik, it pretty much reflects the way people think about the matter.
