Fujitsu Siemens to pay copyright tax on new PCs
The Munich District Court has ordered Fujitsu Siemens to pay a royalty collecting outfit €12 for each new machine it sells.
Wigged ones of the court were convinced that because the machine could be bought by pirates, the computer company should pay the same tax that the makers of blank audio and video cassettes have to shell out.
Read the complete story . (The Inquirer)
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