• kazerniel@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    such physical media will be made illegal

    not quite the same, but in Hungary you had* to pay an extra tax on writeable CDs because it was assumed that you’re buying them for piracy 🫠 iirc the tax went to support the music and film industry

    (* maybe still have to, but I haven’t lived there in more than a decade)

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      2 days ago

      US kind of had that in the '90s. CDRs designated as music disc’s cost extra because we were all criminal scum pirating non-stop. However, if it was a data disc, there was no surcharge.

      There was no difference between the two except the packaging.