 SSidlovOther Things On My MindPremium
join:2000-03-03
Pompton Lakes, NJ
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Re: Great! jUST A QUICK NOTE: They have done this before. It's just a variation on their old copyright protection.
1. cassette tapes had a tax included on them to support artists whose music was supposed to be copied with the 'new tech'
2. CD-R audio has a tax as do regular CD-R's that are not qualified as audio at a lesser rate.
3. They also get $2 for each CD-R recorder.
»www.cb-cda.gc.ca/news/c20032004fs-e.html as an example of one govt agency....
SO, while they collect this type of money for decades now, they have (many people claim) NEVER given anyone a dime of it without a lawsuit.
Now, with cassettes history, and CD-R pretty much the same with DVD, and they may have already struck deals for that media, they haven't been able to tax hard drives and ssd drives. The last thing they can tax is the gateway, and that's the ISP's clients. So they want to add a tax on you for downloading, when they already tax you for burning it, they already tax you for the media you put it on, and maybe they got you to pay for the music too, if you're an honest person.
Seems to me, they already have thier hands in a lot of my pockets.....and they want more... |
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he did not say per lable. he said he would pay $5 to download anything. you nut |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to hairspring
This is just music. Add another $5 for movies. Then another $5 for programs and software.. etc etc
Get really dammed expensive really fast.... |
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 SteveI know your IP addressConsultant
join:2001-03-10
Yorba Linda, CA
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said by Col Klink:Music does nothing for me at all. I don't know how you could take his words as speaking for anything but himself. |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to hairspring
said by hairspring:A licence to download whatever I want! I'll gladly pay $5 for the right to download anything I want free of prosecution. Oh so I should have to pay $5 so you can download all you want? this is just fro msuci. Don't forget the $5 movie tax, $5 TV tax, $5 book tax, $5 software tax. Sound good now? |
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said by hairspring:A licence to download whatever I want! I'll gladly pay $5 for the right to download anything I want free of prosecution. Unless that includes movies too that really is not a good deal at all. I don't know about you guys, but I don't spend $5 a year on music, much less $60.
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 fireflierCoffee. . .Need CoffeePremium
join:2001-05-25
Limbo | reply to Nightshade
"the right to freely download, upload, copy, and share music without restrictions"
Huh? Am I the only one who doesn't believe the RIAA will leave everyone alone if this $5 "tax" gets implemented?
What guarantees are there that they won't still be suing people who "download, upload, copy, and share music without restrictions"? Or suing ISPs who don't implement the aforementioned piracy filters. Which brings up another point. If we're paying a "tax" to share without restrictions then why would piracy filters still be required?
I don't pirate and I have no intentions on starting so I'm not keen on subsidizing media industries with an additional $60/year when said media is already overpriced.
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Lorton, VA
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said by Col Klink:Except, of course, having an educated & literate population does benefit you directly & indirectly. Big difference between having an educated (& employed) population receiving their education from public taxes and having people download music they're too cheap to buy. That's the second point I would have made. Either way you pay. If not for schools, then by prisons, higher cost of goods, security on your home and a limited number of people to commerce with.
Visualize 1930. Imagine it as a permanent condition, but only for the US, as even 4th world basket cases figured out that they need to educate any children they can
Or another scenario;
Imagine community schooling. Once communities hunker down to protect themselves from communities who don't school; we'll wind up with local governments who have interesting and different ideas about what kids need to learn.
If your population is mostly fundamentalist Islam or fundamentalist Christian, what might those community schools teach?
What might America look like after 3 generations of that, while the rest of the world builds armies and decides to expand.
I'm no fan of public schooling, but it's still a mountain of wealth compared to no education at all. It also serves to help bind us all together. If you don't want to pay for that, you can stop reaping the benefits of public schooling. Now.
said by Col Klink: Music does nothing for me at all. Wow. Have you looked at having that treated?
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