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If you don’t mind, where is this?



My mind jumped to Canada when I read the above comment, but really there are a number of countries that fit the mould. Most western countries have a special levy on blank media, including all EU member states except Luxembourg. I don't know which countries don't prohibit the downloading copyrighted material similarly to how they prohibit sharing that media, but Canada is one of them.


A special tax on storage devices and legal status for downloads matches Russia.

Not a western democracy, though.


It's like this in Poland for sure. You can't share, but can download. Doesn't apply to software of course due to its different licensing schema.


That still makes torrenting illegal


Yes, but how would you prove how many copies of something someone shared?


Not if you just leech, right?


Could be Czech republic or Slovakia.


Czech republic




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