Disappointed by IBA, again

[Steve G.]

I know you are joking, but...

My guess is that most of their computer listeners are Israelis living or
working abroad.

Besides, they should have a count of every download or stream on their
logs. I can't say for sure they scan the logs for details, but they must at
least have an idea of their total outgoing bandwidth cost.

Z.

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 08, 2012, Steve G. wrote about "Re: Disappointed by IBA,
> again":
> > 1. We might not care about their bad TV, but THEY DO. Notice that I
> wanted
> > to listen to radio. So it is still a valid complaint, and one that the
> IBA,
> > as a customer facing institution, funded by tax money paid by everyone,
> > should want to address.
>
> Watch out for what you wish for - right now (or at least, last time I
> checked...) the IBA taxes every *car* yearly because they assume that
> people
> listen to radio in the car. Let's not give them bright ideas to tax
> every computer because people actually listen to radio on the computer :-)
>
>
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Steve

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