DesdinovaPremium
join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD | Okay, and who decides how much each artist receives? I'm an independent musician, I release an indy album. It gets pirated. How would I collect? How would I determine how much I'm owed? Or even better: what's to prevent an artist from freely sharing a track millions of times and then screaming "PIRACY!!" and getting paid?
The only way I see this plan working is if each and every music file that moves across any network is tagged and monitored ACCURATELY for description of content and number of copies made, number of copies distributed, etc. in a way that prevents any hint of fraud. Yeah, THAT'LL happen.
Besides, this tax is already in place. The tax that's STILL in place on every music-only CD-R that gets sold. AND YET...the RIAA still sues and prosecutes the "pirates" who manufacture duplicates of protected works (using this medium) that the "pirates" already paid a compulsory tax for. So methinks the RIAA won't let people slide on this one, either.
No, there's an even easier solution than a Piracy Tax: the RIAA and the MPAA need to adapt their organizations to fit in with the rest of the 21st century. They need to accept that there's going to be a certain amount of inventory shrinkage and then get over it. They need to start treating their own artists with respect and integrity and start honoring their contractual obligations to same.
In other words, they need to start acting like responsible businessmen before most of us will start treating them as such. |
