Is there any official commentary on this "theft fee" being added? Sounds a little odd to me. As in, the intraweb is a great place for misinformation to be spread. I'm trying to envision an industry executive even hinting at something like this. That's like book stores or any other retail place putting a theft tax in effect. People would boycott galore.
If they intend to do this, it would be much more logical that they'd never utter a word and just set the price, with the "tax" built into it. We'd all be oblivious. To the end consumer, markup is markup... we rarely get enough info to make distinctions in how the markup is "broken down".
...into the light of a dark black night.
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