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- piracy wins again.
even if content providers are paying - it still inhibits consumption as content providers simply pass the cost to the consumer.
imagine netflix vs megaupload. megaupload or any of those or torrents - they could be registered entities or none but they r not gonna pay. consumers will simply get their content from those sites vs the official ones.
show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome as charlie munger said.
by dzonga - This is taxing communication and should not be legal. I don't see how it's different from having to pay for talking to your neighbor.by monneyboi
- I currently pay $0.005/GB for bandwidth, which works out to a similar amount in Euros. So this tax would constitute a tenfold cost increase to deliver data to France.by dabinat
- EU and European countries are rent-seeking apparatuses whose only purpose is ensuring the status quo. Italy attempted to tax free cloud storage offered by providers such as Google, etc. to customers along with their own paid storage -- private storage is also, of course, taxed on purchase, for all hardware: from 5 to 30€ depending on capacity and intended use, because the citizen is automatically presumed to store copyrighted material on them.by 0x_rs
- From the translation; to be paid by the content providers, with a cap of 15% of their income in France or 2% of their global income.
Dear Netflix, my startup is Uber but for carrier pigeons. Carrying SD cards! With AI-optimized routing because I gotta mention AI somewhere...
by netsharc - It’s about to kill VideoLan foundation (VLC):
https://x.com/videolan/status/2116229135919919278?a=5Ua5pSOr...
by miohtama - So for a download of the newest Call of Duty, you'd need to pay 6.33 EUR? Not for the purchase but the download? What is up with France?by Youden
- apologies for the article in French, but I found no English sources reporting this yet. It is totally ridiculous...by nick486