Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC
Airbnb's response: "A majority of New Yorkers have embraced home sharing, and we will continue to fight for a smart policy solution that works for the the people, not the powerful."<p>I'd be more interested in knowing how New Yorkers feel about regulating short term apartment rentals than how they feel about sharing.<p>I don't think I'm guilty of being a broken record if airbnb keeps misusing the word "sharing."  Although I understand there can be some ambiguity in the word "sharing", the arrangement "you may rent my apartment out for a week if and only if you pay me $1,000" isn't anywhere close to this zone of ambiguity.<p>It is commerce.  It is unambiguously commerce, it is a pure quid pro quo money for services transaction.<p>New York has passed legislation regulating commerce - in this case, the conditions under which someone may rent out property for under 30 days.  Those laws aren't obsolete just because someone wrote a rails app where you can type in an address and click a "create hotel here" button.  Also, commerce doesn't become sharing just because the quid pro quo financial transactions take place over the web.