It's not payment for pirating. The title (and article) is misleading. This is for legal music you are assumed to put there. It's basically the same payment (to the same organization) as radios, concert organizers, and so on have to pay. Royalty fee. It's still stupid though as sellers of the music have to pay as well, so it is double "taxed" (at best).
In germany it is forbidden to break a copy protection, even if you have paid a fee for your storage media. Obviously it is a better deal to collect the taxes than to copy-protect music.
In fact, since I already paid for it, I will want to use it for pirating, otherwise I paid this money for nothing.