> No consent was given by the content creators, no consultation was attempted, and certainly no share of compensation offered, for what is now a commercial enterprise.
It's about privacy concerns, not copyright.
It's about privacy concerns, not copyright.
All these governments have a duty to their aging population, which also tends to make up the majority of the active voter base. Every action they take tends to be multipronged but at the end of the day it's meant to protect those social programs. Consider mass migration to increase labor force and birth rates. Sure they can claim it was purely out of good will, but you'd have to be pretty myopic not to see the reality there.
I doubt tax income on copyright dividends even registers.