[IP] Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: victormarks@gmail.com [victormarks@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Victor Marks [vxm@miglia.com]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 10:27 AM
To: David Farber
Cc: ip
Subject: Re: [IP] Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs

Hi Dave,

For IP if you wish.

If the Music Industry gets this tax implemented (yes, tax. We can call
it a surcharge, fee, or other pretty word, but why mince - it's a tax
levied by a non-governmental organization.)

If, I say, this comes to pass, what is to say that it won't have the
opposite of the desired effect where:
a) the desired effect of the Music Industry is less copyright infringement
and b) the notion of paying such a tax causes users to reason that if
they're paying for downloading, they may as well get their money's
worth?

Regards,
Victor Marks


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:57 AM, David Farber <dave@farber.net> wrote:
> Personally this is BULL-SH_t.   Dave
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>  From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
>  Date: March 13, 2008 5:47:49 PM EDT
>  To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy@warpspeed.com>
>  Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on
>  ISPs
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>  Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs
>  Wired Magazine
>  By Frank Rose
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>  Digital-strategy consultant Jim Griffin thinks ISPs should be made to
>  collect a music surcharge from broadband users to compensate the
>  copyright holders.
>
>  Having failed to stop piracy by suing internet users, the music
>  industry is for the first time seriously considering a file sharing
>  surcharge that internet service providers would collect from users.
>
>  In recent months, some of the major labels have warmed to a pitch by
>  Jim Griffin, one of the idea's chief proponents, to seek an extra fee
>  on broadband connections and to use the money to compensate rights
>  holders for music that's shared online. Griffin, who consults on
>  digital strategy for three of the four majors, will argue his case at
>  what promises to be a heated discussion Friday at South by Southwest.
>
>  "It's monetizing the anarchy," says Peter Jenner, head of the
>  International Music Manager's Forum, who plans to join Griffin on the
>  panel.
>
>  Griffin's idea is to collect a fee from internet service providers --
>  something like $5 per user per month -- and put it into a pool that
>  would be used to compensate songwriters, performers, publishers and
>  music labels. A collecting agency would divvy up the money according
>  to artists' popularity on P2P sites, just as ASCAP and BMI pay
>  songwriters for broadcasts and live performances of their work.
>
>  <http://telephonyonline.com/external.html?q=http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/03/music_levy
>   >
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