The recordable media tax

Somebody on finet.toiminta.effi asked a good question: what will/should happen to the recordable media tax (hyvitysmaksu) when the recordable media becomes so big that there is no sense in assuming that most of it is used for music?

I own about 150 CDs. Ripped into oggs, they would take up about 6.6 G (assuming about 3M per track and about 15 tracks per CD). OK, a true music lover might have 1500 CDs, 66G. A true purist - and these are few - would rip them into flacs, 660G.

But what then? Hasn't one paid enough after having paid the recordable media tax on 20-30G of storage? Or do the fuckers think everyone is trying to own all the music produced in the world, and that each and every one of us burns it in the numbers sufficient to flood a small country with CDs?

Probably should write some politicians about it. Too bad I can't afford to buy as many of them as the recording industry.