Comment This feels very slippery slope.. (Score 1) 873
How many times have you seen a ridiculous proposition publicized solely to make a less ridiculous but still dangerous proposition look better?
It happens ALL THE TIME. Give 'em six months. They'll come out with a new $30 levy that'll seem perfectly reasonable.. and passing it will be tacit acceptance of 'guilty until proven innocent'.
That kind of tax would never disappear, even if the sum Dutch population suddenly shunned file sharing. It's like a toll road; just because they've paid off the asphalt doesn't mean they'll stop collecting the fee!
u15
It happens ALL THE TIME. Give 'em six months. They'll come out with a new $30 levy that'll seem perfectly reasonable.. and passing it will be tacit acceptance of 'guilty until proven innocent'.
That kind of tax would never disappear, even if the sum Dutch population suddenly shunned file sharing. It's like a toll road; just because they've paid off the asphalt doesn't mean they'll stop collecting the fee!
u15
