Interestingly, when the output of the Freebox Revolution, the company has avoided tax on the private copying by playing on a point of the legislation: as "storage systems qualified and certified to operate simultaneously with 3 operating systems "are not subject to tax on private copying, storage space of the Freebox, which is sold as a NAS, is exempt from tax.
One thing that denies SFR: the company believes that Free is offering is nothing more than a hard disk storage for the "TV" from the Freebox, which is indeed the case, the Freebox Player using the hard disk to store data. SFR, only part of the 250 GB hard drive is accessible: offer customers free 40 GB, with the option to "activate" 80 GB or 160 GB by paying a lump sum, close to the value of tax private copying, 15 or 30 €.
What is noteworthy is that the Committee on Private Copying became interested in the case of Free, given the "shortfall" of the situation, especially when other ISPs may be tempted to use the Free same trick, and that an official of the Free was invited to come and take part in committee meetings.
Overall, there are two camps: those who believe that storage is an integral part of the network and does not directly storage space for data subject to tax on private copying, while others consider even if everything is accessible through a network (which is not the case of SFR), the data are mostly "private copies".
Remains to be seen what will happen: either the Committee considers that a hard drive built into a FAIbox, it is not accessible network or not, is subject to tax, or no hard disk is. A third possibility would be to leave the state while, but one suspects that this would accelerate the transition to a functioning type SIN.
In practice, this is the first solution that should (unfortunately for consumers) to be chosen is at least the most logical choice when we look at what is usually the committee in question. Remains to be seen how the case will be treated the Freebox already in circulation and if so whether it is the FAIbox to be taxed or - more simply - all SINs. 
One thing that denies SFR: the company believes that Free is offering is nothing more than a hard disk storage for the "TV" from the Freebox, which is indeed the case, the Freebox Player using the hard disk to store data. SFR, only part of the 250 GB hard drive is accessible: offer customers free 40 GB, with the option to "activate" 80 GB or 160 GB by paying a lump sum, close to the value of tax private copying, 15 or 30 €.
What is noteworthy is that the Committee on Private Copying became interested in the case of Free, given the "shortfall" of the situation, especially when other ISPs may be tempted to use the Free same trick, and that an official of the Free was invited to come and take part in committee meetings.
Overall, there are two camps: those who believe that storage is an integral part of the network and does not directly storage space for data subject to tax on private copying, while others consider even if everything is accessible through a network (which is not the case of SFR), the data are mostly "private copies".
Remains to be seen what will happen: either the Committee considers that a hard drive built into a FAIbox, it is not accessible network or not, is subject to tax, or no hard disk is. A third possibility would be to leave the state while, but one suspects that this would accelerate the transition to a functioning type SIN.
In practice, this is the first solution that should (unfortunately for consumers) to be chosen is at least the most logical choice when we look at what is usually the committee in question. Remains to be seen how the case will be treated the Freebox already in circulation and if so whether it is the FAIbox to be taxed or - more simply - all SINs.
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