[rawe]

Situation in Germany: - GEMA causes video blocking on youtube - there is the GEMA-Vermutung (it is assumed that if you play music in public, it is from a GEMA member and you have to pay a fee or prove that the music was from non-GEMA-members) - there is a Pauschalabgabe fee for storage media (and devices) for the potential use as backup/storage for the music I already paid for (but I am not allowed to crack copy "protection" on media). - there is a monthly fee for GEZ/Rundfunkbeitrag for state "independent" media bound to just living in a flat/house even if there is no device capable of playing media and not bound to actual use of their service. Most media on their online platforms is available for a short period of time (~1 week) and gets deleted after this, they use flash player and there are 3rd party tools [0] necessary so just search through all the media / get a direct link to feed into mplayer

Should I throw even more money on these unfair systems by buying music/media?

[0] http://www.mediathekdirekt.de/