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Re:French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit by kingstnap on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:00PM (#50310074)
https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amendements/3210A/...

This is the current one.

I haven't done french since high school. So totally chatgpt and google translate reading this to me, but I really don't get what VideoLAN has to do with this.

The law is crazy with a €55/TB tax on ingress to France (including local cdns). But it's got nothing to do with your video player.

> A tax is established based on the flows of digital data emitted by content providers and paid by the latter

> When a data emitter uses a content delivery network to cache content near end users, the amount of data emitted is considered equal to the sum of the outgoing flows from the delivery network

Imagine paying €8 to download Balder's gate 3 lol.

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