Time to tax BitTorrent?
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BitTorrent’s software currently sits on 80 million computers, and Internet service providers say that file trading on the service — most of it illegal — now accounts for 40 percent of all online traffic.
If that number is accurate or even close to accurate it might be woth having BitTorrent pay a surcharge for the use of the 40% of all online traffic it uses and give the rest of us a rebate.
