French MPs vote for a €0.055 tax on every gigabyte sent to users
The Next Webby Ana-Maria Stanciuc
Context: An amendment to France's 2027 budget would charge content providers €0.055 per gigabyte sent to French internet users.
From The Next Web: France’s National Assembly has voted to tax companies for every gigabyte of data they send to French internet users. The measure, an amendment to the 2027 budget, would charge content providers €0.055 per gigabyte. Its Socialist authors estimate it would raise €10bn a year.
VideoLAN@videolan
So, the French socialists, and Parliament members just voted a tax, that they don’t understand, which would cost VideoLAN more than 1 million euro per year.
They are probably the most clueless politician on Earth? And they claim they want technological sovereignty……
We're a small team building live AI virtual try-on for eCommerce and one of our biggest challenges has been making the economics work. When we started, running real-time video generation through third-party APIs was costing us close to ₹20 per second. That's ₹400 for a 20-second virtual try-on.