http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/1/8876817/chicago-cloud-tax-online-streaming-sales-netflix-spotify
Today, a new "cloud tax" takes effect in the city of Chicago,
targeting online databases and streaming entertainment services. It's a
puzzling tax, cutting against many of the basic assumptions of the web,
but the broader implications could be even more unsettling. Cloud
services are built to be universal: Netflix works the same anywhere in
the US, and except for rights constraints, you could extend that to the
entire world. But many taxes are local -- and as streaming services
swallow up more and more of the world's entertainment, that could be a
serious problem.
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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