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Any European Alternatives for buying tv shows and movies? (self.buyeuropean)

submitted 16 hours ago by Sunshine to c/[email protected]

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Right now I'm currently using Apple TV to buy video content. But I would like to switch to an european alternative that does not have any drm.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

For a time France was considering a “Cultural tax” to fight against torrenting etc

Most European countries have a "private copying levy", which is basically a tax on storage mediums (HDDs, SSDs, etc, including those inside computers and phones). So as far as I'm concerned I'm already paying for my torrented content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

True, this one is named "taxe sur la copie privée" in France.

But they wanted to do something else, a kind of super powerful public Netflix paid by taxes.