From the LA Times (“France considers taxing Google and other Internet portals,” Devorah Lauter, 8 January 2010): The French government is mulling a so-called Google tax that it said would help level the playing field between Internet portals that offer free content and the music, film and publishing industries that lost revenue partly because of it. "The world of culture is not only turned upside-down but profoundly threatened by the development of the Internet, and we hope that our action doesn't intervene too late," music producer Patrick Zelnik told the French daily Liberation on Thursday.
Comment: This sounds so typical of the French.
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