NHL may decide not to authorize accredited media staff some descriptions or depictions of game information. Interesting. I mean, what else are journalists expected to do?
Culture tax isn't the same as piracy tax, because the collected money is used for different things (one for national productions, the other for collective societies).
Taxing online services like iTunes and Netflix is legitimate (unlike taxing Internet access). Now, how about using regular taxes like VAT for that fund?
"A cap is usually better understood as a threshold after which the user is subject to a different set of conditions for access, such as movement to a higher priced tier, different product or different speeds."
If after reacing the 200 GB or so the company would provide a slower connection (say 1 Mbit/s), that would be a flexible data service. But cutting access to 0 Mbit/s is a data service cap.
"A current TWC subscriber would be moving from a TWC monopoly in service to a Comcast monopoly in service."
Well, yes. But residential subscribers aren't the only customers. Internet companies are also customers.
Suppose that Facebook has a project to install a super connection between their servers and Internet providers. If there's seven internet providers with each under 20% of the market, the project is tricky to do.
But if Time Warner Comcast had 40% of the market, Facebook can choose to connect to them only and ignore the rest of the internet providers. This is a huge advantage for TWC, and kills their rivals. In addition, TWC could set a very high price for the deal, whereas in a less concentrated market each provider has much less bargaining power.
"nobody should be allowed to own more than, say, 5% market share of the media spac"
That wouldn't do much to competition: companies would distribute markets so each gets a few neighbourhoods or towns.
The solution must be to encourage companies to enter markets where where are competitors. For example, Comcast-Time Warner should transfer half their customers from a few key markets to companies that don't operate there.
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Taxing online services like iTunes and Netflix is legitimate (unlike taxing Internet access). Now, how about using regular taxes like VAT for that fund?
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If after reacing the 200 GB or so the company would provide a slower connection (say 1 Mbit/s), that would be a flexible data service. But cutting access to 0 Mbit/s is a data service cap.
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Re: The proper reaction
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Re: Competition?
Well, yes. But residential subscribers aren't the only customers. Internet companies are also customers.
Suppose that Facebook has a project to install a super connection between their servers and Internet providers. If there's seven internet providers with each under 20% of the market, the project is tricky to do.
But if Time Warner Comcast had 40% of the market, Facebook can choose to connect to them only and ignore the rest of the internet providers. This is a huge advantage for TWC, and kills their rivals. In addition, TWC could set a very high price for the deal, whereas in a less concentrated market each provider has much less bargaining power.
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Re: Homo Sapiens
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Now, is it fair that private companies collect taxes?
We can also think gambling websites as entertainment companies. The government may impose luxury taxes on gambling websites, right? End of story.
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Re: Break up all big media
That wouldn't do much to competition: companies would distribute markets so each gets a few neighbourhoods or towns.
The solution must be to encourage companies to enter markets where where are competitors. For example, Comcast-Time Warner should transfer half their customers from a few key markets to companies that don't operate there.
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Knowing Obama's meals could be useful if someone tried to poison him. That's the point of spying massively, isn't it?
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