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The French Government Wants to Charge Taxes on Offline Downloads on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and Other Platforms to Get More Money

The streaming services have allowed us to consume a large amount of content in the form of movies, series and even video games by paying only a small fraction of what we would have cost us to acquire them on our own. This saves us a lot of money, especially if we consume a lot of content and we are enough hours of our free time to dedicate it to it. However, the prices of these services have risen and, if that were not enough, now the French gov…
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Watching a series or an offline playlist has become a mobile reflex. But do these local copies that are created by streaming applications need to be subject to the private copying fee? Marc Rees has come back to the subject for the Informed. The question, coming from The Hague, has landed in Luxembourg. And the first signal is clear: according to [...]

The streaming services have allowed us to consume a large amount of content in the form of movies, series and even video games by paying only a small fraction of what we would have cost us to acquire them on our own. This saves us a lot of money, especially if we consume a lot of content and we are enough hours of our free time to dedicate it to it. However, the prices of these services have risen and, if that were not enough, now the French gov…

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El Chapuzas Informático broke the news in on Sunday, October 26, 2025.
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