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I think it could have been a sensible approach if it stopped at "something associated with the consumption of creative works".

Sadly it (is ?)was way broader than that and you'd have a tax on hard drives sales whatever you would do with them. Imagine needing two extra hard-drives for your home NAS to store your family pics and videos and something like 2 to 3% of the price goes to some artists that _might_ be impacted by piracy some way or another.

https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Thematiques/Propriete-litteraire...



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