Long ago we announced that the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in July against the so-called digital canon. Is now the Spanish Supreme Court which has decided to speak out in this regard, making it clear that the digital canon that has been applied since 2012 is null and void. In this way, it is time to throw away part of Royal Decree 1657/2012 that included in the General State Budgets the compensation to authors for acts of piracy, or rather, for private copies of their works that individuals made.
In this way, it stops subsidizing a Pleistocene industry that has not wanted or wants to adapt to new technologies, those that are being so well received, such as Spotify or Netflix, paid content on demand with a monthly subscription and that activate the light bulb of the paid content for users who loved hacking. Because let's face it nobody wants to pay € 20 for a music CD with 10 songs, when you have all the music you want on Spotify or Apple Music for € 9. In this way, the ruling orders the non-application of the Royal Decree accordingly.
Thus, has partially upheld the appeal filed by Egeda, Dama and Vegap, three entities that understood that the General State Budgets are not a mechanism with which the profits of copyright companies must be guaranteed, which are the ones who must interpose their own security measures to prevent piracy.
To give you an example, it is as if I open a clothing store, I do not put any means of security such as bows or labeling, and I practically invite them to "steal" the contents of the store. In this way, the State will impose a tax annually on citizens to cover my losses, it does not make much sense ...
The Supreme Court ends up putting itself in the same order as the Court of Justice of the EUBut we don't know how this will affect the price of certain storage media.