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Download Taxes As a Weapon Against File-Sharing

Posted by timothy on from the nothing-too-original-because-hey-this-is-hollywood dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An examination of a new "digital downloads" taxation law in Washington State suggests that files downloaded via file sharing programs may be covered by the law — meaning that you may be expected to pay taxes based on 'the value of the digital product ... determined by the retail selling price of a similar digital product.' Thus, if you were to download music or movies and not pay the taxes, would you be liable for tax evasion charges? How much do you want to bet the RIAA will push exactly that claim?"

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  1. Re:Drug tax stamps? by Mashiki · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If this doesn't get modded to +5 insightful I'll be highly disappointed in the /. crowd. People to know, and understand the history of how bad legislation is passed.

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  2. Here is more... by siyavash · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://kde.org/announcements/4.2/screenshots/desktop.png

    The hot char of the menus are always visible.

    The taskbar and its glass are right off Windows.

    The gadgets to the right are right off Windows.

    Look at "Settings" word on the menu, See how "S" and "e" goes almost into each other, what the hell kind of design or font is that?

    Look at the buttons, the caption/text of them are all out of place!

    The grey Windows... need I say more? Cluttered with off place lines, ugly buttons, ugly everything.

    All the fonts and their rendering are ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE LOOKING.

    The Maximum button icon does not make sense at all, an up arrow? wtf?

    Look at that awful awful battery icon! ...The only thing I like is the blue "office" icon on the desktop.