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Copyright advocates in the past have successfully argued that empty CDs are tantamount to copyright infringement. Some countries (Spain) have even had (still does?) a tax on HDDs and SSDs.

You pay extra when purchasing a harddrive, because it's possible to put pirated works on it.

We've already made that hop.

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> You pay extra when purchasing a harddrive, because it's possible to put pirated works on it.

Well, if we've already payed for it...

Jokes aside, every time I start feeling vaguely guilty about pirating something (which I only do from large corps, not indies) something like this pops up.

Does admitting such things demonstrate a lack of wisdom? Does copyright infringement monitoring extend to comments on public forums?

Not really. Here, I can publicly say that I've got 12 terabytes of hard drives, about 8 of which are absolutely full of copyrighted content. Games, movies, music, PDFs, software. I even seed quite a bit of it.

Any MPAA representative, or the legal equivalent in my country are invited to get fucked, since they would need access to said hard drives to prove it.

Maybe I'm only kidding. Who knows?

But yes, and probably.

It's not as if it will actually have any consequences.

Not now but in the future it certainly will come back to you.

Germany has that, too. Any USB-Stick, CD, etc. that a normal user can write any data onto.

We do still have, yes. And I'm pretty sure most of Europe, too.

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