

As long as it’s streaming from their hardware like the article outlines that’s fine.
Renting their hardware will become the only access to hardware that anyone can afford… because all the rest was made scarce by the demand for more enterprise hardware for them to rent out to everyone.










The problem - the greater, potentially insurmountable problem - is… corruption and dishonesty.
If you use a term like “profit”, then they’ll find another way to move money around and categorize it as something else that doesn’t qualify. Many huge companies already pay little to no taxes this way. If they can find ways to lower their tax burden, they can find ways around most things. It will not always happen, but given time I’m sure someone will innovate faster than law can keep up.
The end result will ultimately be auditors or auditing… which if not purely independent can be corrupted. This can come from the company, if they are hiring auditors or self reporting, by whatever authority is in charge of auditing, or by the powers that be starving the auditors of resources which is exactly what has happened to the IRS and US tax system.