Re: Bit tax

[Jon Crowcroft <]

 >The bit tax is not just evidence of Belgian ministerial sense of humour. 

but it is a sure sign of serious incompetence

information copying on a net costs close to nothing

adding a tax based on usage reverses the sense of information
business, which has slowly evolved some very interesting models (c.f.
first virtual etc etc) 

i believe that any international company with information business
inside and outside the EU could construe this as restraint of trade
too....

note that if this is done fairly (i.e. applied to digital comms on any
open network, not just the internet), the stock exchanges will move out of
europe 

sad and bad....

cheers

jon