nice to see a few mentions of the real problem, which is not piracy, and criminalizing individuals, but the lack of legal affordable alternatives for consuming

nice to see a few mentions of the real problem, which is not piracy, and criminalizing individuals, but the lack of legal affordable alternatives for consuming intellectual-property 'products'. I don't know about tax as such, but can't see what's wrong with fees similar to ISP packages, or even the dreaded TV-license. With a fixed-fee (or perhaps a pro-rated fee based on income/social situation) you can get access to as much content as you'd like. As for the claim of that the link between creation and income is destroyed - I disagree. It should be quite easy to distribute the earnings fairly to artists based on usage patterns. In the days of analytics, click-counting, and measuring download bandwidth, it should be easy to see that one artist is much more popular than another, and hence deserves a bigger piece of the pie. It might not be 100% accurate, but I don't think the measurements now for sales and distribution are that accurate either.