States Eye Taxes on Streaming Video and Cloud Computing

Go ahead a tax it. Who cares? All that does is cut the content producers out of any cash they may have earned from website ads where people access their streams.

Increasing its cost with a tax will drive people to access content based in other regions, from USENET, from filehosts, from torrents, etc....

The people who have these ideas are quite obviously still living in the era of paper and video tape, where the only content was provided by an original content producer.

this approach may lead people to seek lower-cost, untaxed mediums (like torrents) rather than a heavily taxed alternative