On Tuesday 22 February 2005 15:18, Niklas Peinecke wrote: > You surely live in Orwell's own country! In Germany, there is no such > information chain -- yet, although I think the GEZ (our tv licensing > institution over here) would love to have such a thing. > Finland is the promised land of all kind of taxes, tv licensing and copyright licenses from playing copyrighted music. Even churches need to pay licenses when people sing copyrighted hymn, tax drivers need to pay licenses if they have their radios on when they have customers etc. We have to pay fees when we purchase empty CD's or DVD's, because we could use those to record copyrighted music. We also have to pay copyright fees from ipods and other devices, that can contain copyrighted material, even digital set top boxes with hard drivers :) Public television and radio organisation (YLE) is unprofitable, they spend more money that they can collect, so fees are increasing every year. Now the tv license fee is about 190 euros. Welcome to Finland :) Regards Kimmo Koivisto
