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by hyperman1 1733 days ago
In my country, we pay a tax on all storage media which goes to content creators. We get to copy any content we legally own at the time of copying, even if borrowed from a friend or library.

So yes, I have an inherent legal and moral right to others' work as I pay for it.

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its like that in germany. well not really but it was supposed to be like this but later on it got illegal to circumvent digital protection regardless how trivial it was. the fees are still in place though...