[Spivak]

Honestly I think everyone involved is making good points and I don’t think it’s as obvious as Netlifx / Hulu want it to be. I think Comcast would get exactly nowhere arguing they shouldn’t have to pay the 5% fee if they switched their cable boxes to be “streaming boxes” that went over the internet and separated out the internet and content departments. And there becomes a point where all that digging is there to support a few supermassive video streaming services. And the last mile ISPs get put in a “we get charged because we have to dig but we only have to dig because of these streaming services.”

If you don’t think this tax should be levied at all then that’s all fine and dandy but given the tax I think Ohio has a much stronger case than “obviously wrong, dismissed.”