I understand that they say this is a voluntary thing, but I've seen this pitch before and there are some major problems with this.
First, as someone who works in an ISP NOC I know that it is not the duty of an ISP to collect fees for 3rd party companies. We give access to the internet, and although play a role as gatekeepers to the worlds information, we are in no way obligated to collect fee's or really try and control data flow such as throttling p2p traffic on pirated material.
Secondly, is that even though it says voluntary you know they want it for everyone. If record labels can tax you for piracy what about software companies, the movie industry, and anyone else who wants their piece of the pie? How long would it take before we're seeing 30++ dollars of taxes go to 3rd parties every month to cover their piracy problems.
My last thought on this is that these people are just desperate to try and keep bleeding their talent for everything they're worth. It seems to me that many newer artists are finding cheaper and better ways to produce and distribute their music without the need for getting owned by some suit at the RIAA. What we have here is another effort to keep their bad business model floating and it won't work unless someone starts "Lobbying" (read bribery) our government officials to enforce this.
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I understand that they say this is a voluntary thing, but I've seen this pitch before and there are some major problems with this.
First, as someone who works in an ISP NOC I know that it is not the duty of an ISP to collect fees for 3rd party companies. We give access to the internet, and although play a role as gatekeepers to the worlds information, we are in no way obligated to collect fee's or really try and control data flow such as throttling p2p traffic on pirated material.
Secondly, is that even though it says voluntary you know they want it for everyone. If record labels can tax you for piracy what about software companies, the movie industry, and anyone else who wants their piece of the pie? How long would it take before we're seeing 30++ dollars of taxes go to 3rd parties every month to cover their piracy problems.
My last thought on this is that these people are just desperate to try and keep bleeding their talent for everything they're worth. It seems to me that many newer artists are finding cheaper and better ways to produce and distribute their music without the need for getting owned by some suit at the RIAA. What we have here is another effort to keep their bad business model floating and it won't work unless someone starts "Lobbying" (read bribery) our government officials to enforce this.