Video Game Piracy costs the industry as much as it makes!

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SvennoJ said:

They have the same thing in The Netherlands (at least when I lived there). Is that a good solution? Why do I need to pay a tax for my home videos. Plus does you isp pay that same tax for every GB you download? With streaming this tax on rewritable media has become outdated and pointless. Only the pirates win.

Btw in the future a general tax on bandwidth can still happen. The battle is long from over.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/digital-culture/canadian-downloaders-should-expect-a-copyright-notice-in-the-mail/article22336673/

Now you have companies trying to scam the pirates, karma lol
http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/2015/04/22/canadians-under-no-obligation-to-pay-for-piracy.html

They have been tracking illegal downloads for years, this is from 2011
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388261,00.asp

Streaming is not considered piracy, EU courts have ruled that:  http://www.digital-digest.com/news-63934-Watching-Pirated-Streams-Is-Legal-Rules-EU-Court.html

So taxation on recordable media makes sense because if you do not download it everything is fine. ISPs do not charge any additional taxes, Hungary tried it and caused such revolution that they reversed their decision in a week.  http://dailynewshungary.com/protesters-demand-withdrawal-of-proposed-internet-tax/