Austrian Blank Media Tax May Expand To Include Cloud Storage 129
An anonymous reader writes "Depending on where you are in the world, blank media may have a secondary tax applied to it. It seems ludicrous that such a tax even be considered, let alone be imposed, and yet an Austrian rights group called IG Autoren isn't happy with such a tax covering just physical media; it wants cloud storage included, too. At the moment, consumers in Austria only pay this tax on blank CDs and DVDs. IG Autoren wants to expand that to include the same range of media as Germany, but also feels that services like Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive etc. all fall under the blank media banner because they offer storage, and therefore should carry the tax — a tax consumers would have to pay on top of the existing price of each service."
More ideas (Score:5, Funny)
A tax on pencils and pens.. You could use one to write down 1's and 0's.
A tax on paper. because what else would you write your 1's and 0's on.
A tax on empty boxes. They could be used to store pages of 1's and 0's!
How about a tax on austria for just being fucking stupid... yeah i like that idea the best. lets tax stupid! we'll be so rich!
So if I went for "unlimited storage" (Score:4, Funny)