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Europe wants to shape the future of virtual worlds with rules and taxes • TechCrunch

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EU lawmakers are moving into the metaverse and making it clear that regardless of novel virtual worlds and/or immersive social connectivity to which the tech industry hype involving the term may refer, these virtual spaces of next generation will not escape a harsh reality. : Regulation.

There may also be a second metaverse certainty, if the Commission has its way: network infrastructure taxes.

EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said today that he believes some of the profits made in an increasingly immersive software environment should flow to providers of the backbone needed to host these virtual spaces, a suggestion that it will surely trigger a new round of networking. pearl-clutch neutrality.

The Commission has been signaling for some months that it wants to find a way…

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