Eff wrote a couple good articles on taxing music. Collective Licensing Good, ISP tax bad: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/03/monetizing-file-sharing-collect

Eff wrote a couple good articles on taxing music. Collective Licensing Good, ISP tax bad: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/03/monetizing-file-sharing-collective-licensing-good-isp-tax-bad https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/03/monetizing-file-sharin... A Better Way:http://www.eff.org/wp/better-way-forward-voluntary-collective-licensing-music-file-sharing http://www.eff.org/wp/better-way-forward-voluntary-collectiv... Their opinion is basically to create collecting societies. Listeners would pay a monthly fee and get the legal right to use all works by member artists, irrespective of format or distribution method. Artists could choose whether to join or not. They are saying it would work because it has precedence, and most users would be willing to pay a fair price. The society will be encouraged to charge a fair price by the fact that not doing so will encourage piracy. Fines and legal action will help the societies from non-members. I think that the general idea is good. I might be willing to pay a monthly fee if I got unrestricted access to music.