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There actually could be a business here. Start an new ISP and make a deal with the movie and record labels that you'll charge your users $10 more a month to com
by Readmore 19y ago
There actually could be a business here. Start an new ISP and make a deal with the movie and record labels that you'll charge your users $10 more a month to compensate the artists as long as your users can download as many movies and songs as they want without fear of lawsuits.
- noonespecial 19y agoHa! You don't grok the RIAA. More likely they'll sue you especially, because if you're willing to pay the $10 you must be pirating.
- marvin 19y agoThis post turned out rather bipolar. Please bear with me. I might bite on such a deal... It doesn't, however, give full moral absolution as RIAA/MPAA only covers a subset of all the artists hit by file sharing. And at that, they only support the guys I wouldn't give a dime. So on second thought, perhaps I might not bite on such a deal. It is a good idea, though..if we could somehow push in some organization which fairly distributes the copyright infringement tax (fat chance of that!) artists could be fairly compensated for whatever amount of money we can finally agree they lose to "illegal downloads". On another note..your idea wouldn't work after all, because it would be voluntary, and hence the MAFIAA wouldn't get the coverage they slaver for. Even if a copyright tax could be successfully implemented, it would, as the history of such taxes suggests, remain in place indefinitely, even long after it has lost its relevance. Which is incredibly stupid. Why can't we cover this budgetary post with the money from a tax instituted to pay the welfare of coach drivers removed from business by the automobile, or something in that vein? All things considered, this idea seems just as harebrained as everything the RIAA comes up with...