Is The Street Performer Protocol Feasible?

Brian Koehler asks: "With all the news about Napster lately, I'm wondering if the Street Performer Protocol would really work in practice. Does anyone know if this has been studied before? If not, here's a questionaire and here are the results." There weren't many votes when I checked a week ago. You all might want to stop by and let your views be known. We've talked about this before, but this was before Napster was popular, and the highly-visible court case. Have your opinions changed since then?