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."I'd be more interested in knowing how New Yorkers feel about regulating short term apartment rentals than how they feel about sharing.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.It is commerce.  It is unambiguously commerce, it is a pure quid pro quo money for services transaction.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.