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Re: Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:32:10 -0700
________________________________________ From: Brett Glass [brett () lariat net] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:29 AM To: David Farber; ip Subject: Re: [IP] Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs At 07:57 AM 3/14/2008, David Farber wrote:
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.
What about ISPs? ISPs bear a large cost due to P2P as well, because it shifts content providers' bandwidth costs onto them, multiplying them 400-fold or more in the process. --Brett Glass ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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