thoumsin

Wrong example for here in Europa... on the price in store for a original CD, only a very little part go to the author... the main part is for the distributor... here, when you buy blank CD, DVD, video, etc ... you pay a fee ( author tax ) on the blank support... the money earned is shared between author... Same method with free software... free to download but you pay for the boxed version... you don't pay for the product but you pay for the distribution ( manual, box, support, ... ) Now, i have one little question : who own the copyright ? The author or the distributor ?

Why the torrent site need to be down... you don't host the copyrighted material... only a tracker... What is illegal is the people who upload a torrent... who make public a copyright material... in several european country, download is not illegal... copy for personal use not illegal... but in some european country, upload is illegal... I find strange that USA, the country of "freedom", have so limited right... at several level, usa freedom is now more low that in Russian from the Staline time... But like always, the big one with a lot of money will make a long and expensive legal procedure who will obligate litlle one like these site to close... the Niteshdw community is a little one but what about all torrent site and user of torrent site together... a long time ago, big one like Microsof have try stop the little Linux system but the communauty have win : not in US where several package was removed :-( Seem that i will be to late for the 80's serie gallactica :-(((( ... maybe via DC++ ... at very slow speed...

From Belgium, a very little country in Europa... I receive 1643 euro monthly... but my boss have already pay 30% of patronal tax... so, the basis ( money expended by boss ) is 2136 euro From the 1643 euro, i pay almost 14% of RSZ ( sociale tax ) : 214.71 euro From the 1643 euro, i pay a state tax of 294.15 euro ( between 0% and 50% in function of income, composition of family, professional expense,... ) So, after these tax, i have 1134.14 euro... when i remove the city tax, i keep 1076.22 euro... On each product that i buy in shop, you have a tax from 21.5% ... This mean that from the 2136 euro from the boss, 1285.3 euro is return to the state in the form of different tax... it can seem big for American men... but these money is used by our gouverment and allow us to spare a lot in other domain : - health insurance is around 60 euro/year... this pay back around 90% of drugs price, 85% of doctor price and 90% of hospital price... with a complement insurance from 85 euro/year, i am fully pay back for all medical expence for me and all my family... So insurance is several hundred $$$ month for American - in case of illness, loose of work... gouverment pay me 80% of my losing income the first year, 60% the second year, the povrety level the following years... In USA, so private insurance exist but they ask easily 10% of your income - Retirment money is pay by state... proportionel to your life income... this can exist in USA but the money received is enough low and a complement private retirment plan is needed, again some hundred $$$ month... - school, public transport ( bus ) are almost free In both situation, USA or Europa, it is almost similar... no money dissappear or is created... USA is a big country and a private insurrance business can have a lot of customer... this allow them to invest the premie and realise a big "plus value" who is all benefice for the customer... Europa is make from little country... the gestion by the state allow big amount of money, what is needed to invest and receive good interest... So, what you don't pay to the state, you need to pay it yourself... since money don't grow on tree, in both situation, the global result is similar... pay more to state and receive service from state... not pay to state and use private insurrance service... Make the calcul yourself... take you basic income, remove tax, insurance, mortgage, energy price, ... all your fixed expense... and see how much stay for enjoy life... almost the same on both side of the ocean... and it is not a big amount :( EDIT : in my case, i am able to spare around 350 euro month... not so bad for a low income... but i have no debt... this help a lot ;)