You pay this tax in Germanyland since 2008, so nothing new here.
On the one hand this is quite extreme (this was initiated by a copyright collecting societies, some like GEMA, and if they can smell money, then may lord have mercy on you).
On the other hand copyright violations get out of hand, especially in the internet.
Most people think if they use it for a non-profit project, then they can use everything they want and this is not true.
There are some cases where people use part of my works (thats ok, i dont care about it), but they have not even asked for my permission and put their own watermark on it, yeah thats great.
And another case where someone has "stolen" some of my work. i could sue them for copyright violation, the problem this is somewhere in Russia, so i would have to pay a german and a russian lawyer (that already two lawyers too much) and this cost more than it is worth.
