[Download Squad] 2 New Entries: New York state may begin taxing music downloads

New York state may begin taxing music downloads

Filed under: Internet, News

New York, the state that brought us taxes on items bought over the internet is at it again. This time governor David Paterson is considering a 4% tax on music and other digital media downloads.

To be fair, times are tight and Paterson is also proposing raising taxes on soda, cable and satellite TV, gas, cigars, beer, and movie and sports tickets in order to balance the state budget. But at a time when residents finances are at least as tight as the state's, I imagine these proposals won't be very popular in New York.

Amazon, Overstock.com and other retailers are already fighting New York's internet sales tax in court. Something tells me Amazon and other companies that sell digital music and movies to New York citizens aren't going to take the new tax proposal sitting down.

New York state may begin taxing music downloads originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AppRemover uninstalls, cleans up security software

Filed under: Security, Utilities, Windows, Beta

Some Windows applications are easier to uninstall than others. While some apps just hang out quietly in a Program Files folder and disappear entirely when you run the uninstaller, others write registry entries and hide files throughout your system. And when you run the uninstaller, some of those files and settings remain behind, bogging down your system.

Some of the worst offenders are anti-virus applications. You uninstall one and prepare to load another on your computer only to find that you can't because the first one hasn't been cleanly removed.

AppRemover is a beta application designed specifically to uninstall security software including anti-virus and anti-spyware applications. Just download and run the utility (no installation required) and it will locate any anti-virus software installed on your computer. Click the remove button to uninstall it.

The program recognizes a number of popular security suites from companies including Norton and Symantec and AVG.

[via AppScout]

AppRemover uninstalls, cleans up security software originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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