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June 30 2011
Sony CEO: We Were Hacked By Freetards Who Just Want Everything Free | Techdirt
quote: "The government should tax intellectual property. I suggest they do so on a yearly basis, and anyone delinquent in their tax payment should lose their copyright. This will remove all issues with orphaned works and should bring copyright back into the workable realm. If you want intellectual property to be like real property, this would go a long way to bringing it in line.That way Disney gets to keep Mickey Mouse as long as they want, and I get to use the words of Aldous Huxley on a website without having to pay off a company who has nothing to do with Huxley or his descendants taking taxes from a work that was written 80 years ago."
February 21 2009
LGJ: Virtual Taxation - Joystiq
"What's next? A 10% tax on your monopoly money income?" " I'd prefer the IRS treat the SL avatar as a foreign citizen and the income as a foreign-earned and only tax the transfer of funds from the foreign entity to the US tax-paying entity, if they want to handle this under the federal scheme. I think it's best handled under a state tax scheme though." Another user points out that virtual money is more like capital gains than income
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