Thank you for the question.
As I was saying, surveys show that, in 2015-2016, more than two billion copies were made, and some people are still making copies on their devices. They will do stream ripping, for example, which is illegal, and make additional copies. It is those additional copies that we are talking about.
We are not interested in access to the original copy, but to the additional copies. It is important to understand that. In the English version of the act, the word used is “copy”, but the French version uses “exemplaire” or “copie”. There is an important distinction between access to the first copy and to additional copies. That is what the private copying scheme is after. Hundreds of millions of copies are made for personal use.
What we are asking is to be able to use just the average of what is done with devices. For example, a device costing $700 would provide a royalty of about $3. This is not a problem in Europe, I feel, because the royalty is included in the price of the iPad, iPhone, tablet or smartphone. So the consumer does not see the $3.