Wednesday, October 25, 2006

AMD and ATI become one. Germany requires Internet License!

AMD and ATI are now one, and if you go to ati.com you end up at ati.amd.com.

Some worrying news from Germany: Germany brings in TV license fees for the internet -

"And, just to really rub salt into the wound, the follow up of shock troops comes with the realisation that you’ll be charged this license fee no matter what you use your internet device for! Yep, that means you business users, who never surf the net, have net access for information and email only, you get charged. Likewise, home users in the ex-Eastern Germany, who are just unwrapping the latest 486DX2, are going to be hit with the charge too." more details at the inquirer.

1 comment:

Matt said...

1. Hope it doesn't come in in this country.
2. Guess it shouldn't affect too many Germans, if you can just say 'this is my address, here's my existing licence'
3. Not exactly fair if you have a blanket charge per isp. How exactly do you evaluate who's doing what? If you have 10000 isp accounts and 1 person 'downloads german tv program' do you charge for 1 tv licence or for less than 1 because that person has a high likelihood of already owning a tv licence.