Online piracy Alert system is coming

And so it begins, the witch hunt of the 21st century.

In my country, there is a non-profit organisation that taxes ALL use of music. We are talking parties, music at work, music at public places, etc. To quote their website: Its object is the receipt, the redistribution, the administration and the management (in the widest sense of the word) of all copyrights in Belgium and in other countries where reciprocity agreements are entered into.

They should pay all artists that are subscribed to them but they have 150 MILLION euro still to cash out for the last two years. They also, for instance, tax parties that are playing music that isn't even under their supervision and they've been known to even tax complete self-made-music parties. They also tax logistics companies because truck drivers listen to music in their trucks, it is music "in the workplace". They tax children's day cares where children's songs are sung, because it is according to them, copyrighted and thus needs to be taxed.

I say again: NON. PROFIT. ORGANISATION.

This is what happens when you let a private organisation do a governments job. They tried this in France and it made more problems than it solved. I don't see this fix anything other than giving rich companies even more money.