Not just video streaming. Think of game downloads, software updates, video calls, cloud storage, backups.

A GTA 6 download is estimated to be 210 GB. Under this law the publisher or storefront will have to pay an extra 11.5 EUR per copy in tax. And not just for a sale, but for every download.

Got the latest Apple security update? Think about whether it is really worth paying a couple bucks to install it.

Sure, but the problem is that this is outweighed by the downsides to the law.

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>> Paying 0.055 EUR per GB of traffic sent to French residents makes video streaming fundamentally unprofitable.

How so? If you're paying a few EUR to watch a movie there's should be plenty of profit left.