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In Spain they get a royalty from everything you can store data on, from hard disks to mobile phones.

They also do in Germany, where they are suing. It's mentioned in the article I think - they try to get the money twice.

Does it scale with storage size lol

It does in Italy: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equo_compenso_in_Italia#Tariff...

It scales with price :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

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