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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


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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


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