And music, videos and everything else cool you can download.
New York Governor David Paterson wants to tax Internet porn in a bid to cream off cash from downloads.
The four per cent tax will apply to downloads of music, software, books, videos and other Internet content. However, since most downloading is porn it is effectively a porn tax.
New York is strapped for cash at the moment with a $15 billion dollar budget deficit.
Those opposed to porn on the web said that if New York brings in the tax it would have to encourage the downloading of porn to boost its own tax revenues. Others point out that the companies that rely on downloading will just move out of the State.
If this kind of thinking moves to other countries outside of the US we're going to need every cent of the upcoming stimulus package just to keep up with our downloading habits! Music downloading, this is; not porn. We'd never download that...
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Issue: 106 | November, 2009