This new digital canon was approved on July 3 and in the end it affects beyond Mac, hard drives and smartphones, this digital canon it makes almost all the products we use in our day-to-day technology-related activities more expensive.
In payment of this tax it is for all consumers even though distributors are quoted verbatim from the government, they end up raising the final price for the user which is ultimately the one who ends up paying. This canon what it implies explained in a simple way is a final price increase for any device used to reproduce or store private copies of content using book readers, USB sticks, computers, smartphones of any brand, external drives, recorders, etc ...
In principle, it is not a rise that should alarm us, but it is a climb in the end. In this case, we are going to explain a bit the different devices that will be affected by the digital canon and the increase prices that will be added to the official sale price:
- Hard drives are the worst unemployed with an increase of up to 12 euros for each disc
- All computers and tablets their price will increase $3,15 since they have an internal disk
- For the books It will depend on the device, if it is an e-reader or not it will be paid between 4,50 and 5,25 euros per device
- USB sticks or similar the increase will depend on whether or not it is rewritable, but it would be between 0,8 to 0,28euros per device
- Smartphone capable of storing music, text, records, etc (all) the increase will be 3,15 euros for each