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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. Re:I can't believe the ideas the RIAA thinks they. by Grishnakh · · Score: 1, Redundant

    He's not a thief. He's already paid the RIAA their fees for blank CD-Rs. So if he doesn't download some music, he'll be paying that money for nothing.