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Rosen Floats ISP Fee Idea -- Charge Everybody!

Posted by timothy on from the magnanimous dept.

iconian writes "Hillary Rosen of RIAA wants to impose a type of fee to ISPs which in turn will be passed to all their customers indiscriminately to recoup supposed damages done by file-sharing. The RIAA considers downloading music illegally over the Internet to be the moral equivalence of stealing. I wonder then what is the moral equivalence of the RIAA taking realized cash from people who do not download music?"

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  1. If a woman blabs and nobody's there to hear it... by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Informative

    This isn't a new law.
    This isn't a bill that's on the president's desk.
    This isn't a bill that has passed the House.
    This isn't a bill that has passed the Senate.
    This isn't waiting in committee.
    This hasn't even been proposed in either branch.
    Hillary cannot propose it in either branch, she hasn't been elected.
    Hillary isn't even running for office.

    This is so far away from being a law, it isn't even funny. Nobody with the power to make this a law has come forward supporting it. If Fritz Hollings picks it up, then we can be a bit concerned, yet he still needs to convnice a lot of other people this is a good idea before it goes anywhere.

    Let's not get too worked up on this one. Keep it on the radar, sure... but there are a lot of other bad ideas that have gotten further in the assembly line than this one, and those are the ones that need our attention.