Cities sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, claim they owe cable “franchise fees”:
Four cities in Indiana are suing Netflix and other video companies, claiming that online video providers and satellite-TV operators should have to pay the same franchise fees that cable companies pay for using local rights of way.
The lawsuit was filed against Netflix, Disney, Hulu, DirecTV, and Dish Network on August 4 in Indiana Commercial Court in Marion County. The cities of Indianapolis, Evansville, Valparaiso, and Fishers want the companies to pay the cable-franchise fees established in Indiana's Video Service Franchises (VSF) Act, which requires payments of 5 percent of gross revenue in each city.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @02:10PM
(b) The term does not include a system that transmits video service to subscribers without using any public right-of-way.
So, if they use public internet with encryption they should be fine?