Re: Bit tax proposal?

["Rev. Mark Grant, ULC" <mark@unicorn.com>]

>      All interactive digital information would be subject to the new tax.
> Thus digital broadcast and digital radio (all 'one to many' broadcasts)
> would be exempted from the tax. 

Gosh, so the TV and radio companies would get to broadcast tax-free and
the rest of us would have to pay. Not like this is intended to turn the
scary old Internet into the digital equivalent of the broadcast media. 
I'm sure that idea never even considered crossing their minds...

Hmm, maybe "Cypherpunks Productions" should start broadcasting soap operas
and gameshows with email and Usenet stego-ed into the low bits. 

	Mark