$5 Per Month Fee Proposed For Legal Music P2P

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday March 13, 2008 @12:58PM from the it's-nice-to-have-somebody-do-my-budget-for-me dept.

sneakyimp writes "Both Wired and Ars Technica have reports on Jim Griffin's proposal that ISPs charge each broadband customer $5 per month to subsidize the ailing music industry. The resulting fund would ostensibly 'compensate songwriters, performers, publishers and music labels.' Although no specific version of the proposal has been referenced, a number of controversies are inherent to the plan: How is the money really divided? What happens when the MPAA, the Business Software Alliance, and various other industry groups want their own surcharge added? What about the supposed majority of broadband customers who never download illegal music? Griffin discussed the plan further at SXSW . We've previously discussed a similar proposal from the Songwriters Association of Canada.

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Re:Apple won't like it... by jcgf · 2008-03-13 14:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Illegal downloaders need to stop freeloading off the rest of us and pay for the things they want.
I'm gonna head on over to the pirate bay and download shit right now, just to piss you off.
Re:I wonder what.... by gooman · 2008-03-13 14:09 · Score: 4, Funny

With nanomachines on the horizon, it won't be more than 50 years till you will have access to a formulator capable of replicating a car

Make mine a flying car.

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