Music Industry Creates ISP Piracy Tax Organization > I dunno...

I dunno...

Only if there wasn't so much sheep today...

People should just boycott the music industry...but people are just too weak and selfish to care about anything else other than themselves...

Something like this will never pass. How can a non gov't agency impose a tax...

This is why there needs to be a change in the US, people need to stand up against this corporations, don't they care that they trying to pull this bullshit on the people.

reply to Meh37
Everything about this plan is evil.

1. Unfair to all the subscribers who aren't interested in downloading music. (It would be voluntary for the ISP but the ISPs that sign up would force it on all their subscribers.)

2. $5/month is way too much. Divide total downloads by total internet users, it probably comes to less than a dollar per.

3. The money wouldn't go to the artists - only to RIAA.

4. Others would want in. Imagine $5 for music you may not want, then $7 for movies and TV files you may not want, $5 for software someone's pirating that you may not want, and so on.

5. The bait for ISPs is that they avoid liability? They're already protected from liability for what their users do online.

6. It would assure greater exposure for major-lable music, to the detriment of indpendent artists who would not be covered.

7. Subscribers would be protected from liability only for some of their downloads; any download of a recording not from one of the participating labels could still get a person sued.

There's probably more that I'm not thinking of now - none of it good. I hope the ISPs have enough sense to tell RIAA to take a hike.

reply to Meh37
LOL and pigs fly right?