Apr 08 2008
Music industry proposes “piracy tax”
And the madness never ends with the recording industry. Some are finally starting to catch up to the new technology and media, others are stuck in the stone ages. And many of them simply fail to realize that they’d make a lot more money if they stopped selling so much one-hit-wonder garbage. THe latest nonsense? From Broadband Reports:
Last week the music industry caused serious waves by announcing they’d created a new organization tasked with trying to implement a music “piracy tax.” In essence, users would pay their ISP $5-$10 a month for the right to download, copy and share as much music as they’d like without restrictions. Or at least that’s the sales pitch; it’s hard to believe the music industry’s implementation of such a plan wouldn’t have serious flaws.
Yep. You read right. Your ISP would charge you an additional $5-$10 a month, even if you don’t file share (for someone like me, however, this would be a bargain, I guess). The big dilemma here is that filesharing is not going to go away, and there needs to be some sort of mechanism in place where the artists can be duly compensated for that. I don’t have a problem with that, but like many I do have a problem with Digital Rights Management and all of the other bullshit schemes that severely limit what you can do with the media that you paid for.
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