It's not subsidized. You paid a fee on every hard drive to pay for that drive to hold pirated media.

It's subsidized by people who paid the fee when they bought a hard drive to hold something other than pirated media.

	▲	gzread 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You mean the fee I pay for piracy doesn't cover the cost of the piracy? Maybe they should remove the fee, so they can prosecute me for piracy, without me arguing it's covered by the fee.