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Tarsnap now available to residents of Canada
- ralph 14y ago7(b) is new and 13 has been changed from "You may not use the service if you are a citizen or resident of Canada".
- cperciva 14y agoSo much for my plans of "send an email to tarsnap-announce, write a blog post, then submit that blog post to Hacker News"...
- ohgodthecat3 14y agoI'm surprised no one posted your other emails when you were sending them (the ones about the outage). Kind of expected here.
- cperciva 14y agoI don't mind having information "leak out" -- as far as I'm concerned, it's public as soon as I hit send. I was just surprised at how fast it arrived here.
- ralph 14y agoDidn't know if you were reticent to blow your own trumpet so thought I'd give a helping hand. Didn't realise a blog post would be in the offing; sorry. Perhaps next time publish the blog post, submit here, then the announce list email, then the individual customer emails, that way you wouldn't be tipping off lots of possible submitters before you're ready. :-)
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- dfc 14y agoWhat was the problem preventing residents of Canada from using tarsnap?
- cperciva 14y agoSales tax paperwork -- Tarsnap is based on Canada, so it has to charge sales taxes to Canadians. Oddly enough, the Canada Revenue Agency is a bit unclear on how exactly to handle picodollars.
- dfc 14y agoShould I wait for your blog post before I ask questions about how you handled everything?
- cperciva 14y agoI'll be providing details in my blog post, but the short answer is: I'm paying the taxes (aka. they're included in the advertised price), which allows me to compute them retroactively; and the government has absolutely no objection to people paying more taxes than they owe, which means that I can get away with calculating taxes in a way which technically wrong but actually both simpler and more in keeping with the spirit of the law.
- tptacek 14y agoOddly enough, the Canada Revenue Agency is a bit unclear on how exactly to handle picodollars. So are many of your prospective customers! STOP DOING THAT.
- cperciva 14y agoUsing picodollars attracts exactly the customers I want. You have absolutely no idea how many people have told me that they started using Tarsnap because of the picodollars.
- solutionyogi 14y agoI think I vouch for Thomas when I say that you have no idea how many more customers you can get and more importantly how much more money you will be able to make if you drop your picodollars pricing. I work for various hedge funds in NYC and none of my clients will ever take Tarsnap seriously based on your pricing. They equate pricing with quality.
- ralph 14y agoAnnouncement: http://www.mail-archive.com/tarsnap-announce@tarsnap.com/msg00007.html http://www.mail-archive.com/tarsnap-announce@tarsnap.com/msg...
- comex 14y agoJust a general question: why offer a GPG key for download on the same site as the file to be verified? (If you expect users to download the key once and then verify multiple releases with it, why rotate the key every year?)
- cperciva 14y agoIf I did it right, the code signing GPG key is signed by my personal GPG key, which is signed by the FreeBSD Security Officer GPG key, which is signed by lots and lots of people. So there's a chain of trust.
- Jemm 14y agoWhy charge US dollars for Canadians using a Canadian service? Big turn off for me as; a. I incur extra fees converting money b. My sense of privacy is impaired.
- cperciva 14y agoGood question. Unfortunately, the Canadian dollar hasn't taken its rightful place as a pre-eminent world currency yet, so advertising prices in Canadian dollars would make it difficult for all the Tarsnap users outside of Canada to figure out what it costs. I could theoretically take payments in both US and Canadian dollars, but practically speaking that would be a huge headache for my accounting systems.