Go ahead a tax it. Who cares? All that does is cut the content producers out of any cash they may have earned from website ads where people access their streams.<p>Increasing its cost with a tax will drive people to access content based in other regions, from USENET, from filehosts, from torrents, etc....<p>The people who have these ideas are quite obviously still living in the era of paper and video tape, where the only content was provided by an original content producer.