> Is hosting not analogous to warehouseing? It's not clear what is and what is not being hosted. Let's take Google for an example. Google has datacenters all

> Is hosting not analogous to warehouseing? It's not clear what is and what is not being hosted. Let's take Google for an example. Google has datacenters all over the world. You could make a case that Gmail makes no money on its own, that all the money comes from ads. Fine, host all the servers that serve Gmail on its own in a local country to reduce latency, and serve all ads from a server in a tax haven. Who do you tax? The tax haven has no taxes, and Gmail itself is a net expense, as you have to pay for labor, servers, power, and bandwidth. > You can reverse it and have pot in the Netherlands or great Gatsby in Australia to send to the US, but weve had the term smuggling to cover that situation as well. That is incorrect. You can download Great Gatsby instantly in the US right now[0]. Project Gutenberg prevents German users from downloading books[1]. All these extra laws are doing is making it so new companies have more hoops to jump through and large existing companies have the lawyers and money to figure out how to skirt the rules. [0] http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200041.txt http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200041.txt Don't download if you're in the states. [1] https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/project-gutenberg-blocks-german-users-from-downloading-ebooks https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/project-gutenberg-b...