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Is the reasoning behind this correct?
Stochastic Geometry
Is the reasoning behind this correct?
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I wouldn't be surprised - the language in the Bill is conveniently vague.Originally Posted by riven
It would be impossible to police though.
This is the dream internet service providers have i.e. to turn the internet into a fee payng vehicle where you would have to pay a fee to access the most popular sites like You Tube And Red Tube.Pie will obviously remain free.
No more than the licence, I think. Every broadband connection runs through an ISP, so the state need only demand access to subscriber records. Any and every broadband connection is capable or TV over Internet, so they simply slap a €160 fee on everyone who has a broadband connection and no TV licence.
It's probably to cover against the trend of cable companies offering TV-over-Internet, while subscribers say "but I have no TV".
Never let the best be the enemy of the good.
Irish Internet Tax.
Nail in the coffin of the knowledge economy.
Take a bow Minister Ryan and your Green Party.
That's fascism
Why not tax people for inhaling air,or having a gravity tax,what a f uc kin joke
I don't think the State can demand subscriber records. Unless they change a law that would allow them.
And someone must pay GRyan's inflated salary.
Nope, it makes assumptions about the definition of a broadcasting service.
The relevant definition is
This excludes all on-demand services. Some people have suggested streaming content such as Dail TV still qualifies, but it is not streamed to the general public whether the material is received or not. They would have to be sending the content to every Irish Internet address to come under the definition of a broadcast service.“broadcasting service” means a service which comprises a compilation
of programme material of any description and which is transmitted,
relayed or distributed by means of an electronic communications
network, directly or indirectly for simultaneous or near-
simultaneous reception by the general public, whether that material
is actually received or not, and where the programmes are provided
in a pre-scheduled and linear order, but does not include:
(a) a service provided for viewing in a non-linear manner
where each viewer chooses a programme from a catalogue of programmes, or
(b) other audio and audiovisual services provided by way of
the Internet;
Somebody treats legislation as loose English and comes to the wrong conclusion. Aren't blogs great?
Good riddance.
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