Kazaa, Verizon Propose Compulsory Music Licensing

akb writes "USA Today is reporting on an interesting new alliance between Kazaa, the dominant file sharing network, and Verizon, a company with revenues of $67 billion. The two companies are floating a proposal to ISPs and the computer and manufacturing industries to lobby to force the music industry to license their music. Royalties would be payed to artists directly, thus circumventing the stranglehold the RIAA has on the music industry."

Comments

Aha!

[cscx]

Statements like

Who does the RIAA benefit? themselves?

-and-

however, now it seems that the RIAA doesn't even acknowledge the artists anymore.

only go to show what you don't really know:

That is that the RIAA is a secret Iraqui agency working for Saddam Hussein. What seems to be the RIAA's plan to take over the world is really Saddam trying to take over the world. All that money that supposedly goes to the "artists" is really funneled into an Iraqui weapons program. I mean, what really happens to the artists anyway? Just look at people like Vanilla Ice, Weird Al Yankovic and Marky Mark from Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. THEY were really killed to hide the truth after their money was secretly sent to Saddam. The next thing you know, he'll be commanding all the world's computers using something called "Brilliant Digital Projector..."

Or, it could just be a scheme run by The Brain from Pinky and the Brain.

no

[digitalsushi]

thus circumventing the stranglehold the RIAA has on the music industry

No! I can not say anything nice about Verizon! I'll seize to be! Curses.. foiled.. gahh.... getting dark...