{"id":435,"date":"2004-12-30T18:21:35","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T01:21:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-12-31T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2004-12-31T21:08:35","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/435\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone wants a slice of it"},"content":{"rendered":"

From World of Warcraft’s forum the official announce:<\/p>\n

Players in select states around the U.S. may have found that their monthly subscription fee is slightly higher than expected. With the rise of many online subscription-based services, several states have recently begun to apply a tax to services that use such a model, and this tax is an additional cost that players are seeing added onto the base subscription rate.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Colorado, Washington, D.C., Illinois, New York, Texas, Utah, and Washington state currently charge this tax, and residents of these states will be affected. We apologize for any confusion this tax might have caused.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t care much because, you know, I live in Australia<\/a>. But living at the same time in Italy I have to deal with absurd taxes when the game boxes are shipped to me. <\/p>\n

As I commented on the forums this is retarded. Internet exists and has its soul in a simple concept: there’s no defined space, no geography. These taxes are a way to look backwards, to “eat” something that cannot be accepted and tolerated by an obsolete system.<\/p>\n

Regional taxes are exactly a way to impose a territory in a space that, by definition, hasn’t a dimension, cannot be gathered, blocked, fragmented and mapped. Cannot be confined. Cannot be known. Cannot become a territory with a border and the two spaces (what’s inside and what’s outside).<\/p>\n

This money greed is both a desperate and obsessive need to define and confine a space AND a prevarication of the value of money to assimilate even what cannot be assimilated. As an idea, a spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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