Re: Finance the music industry with a $6/mo le vy on broadband (The Reg)

Edward Welbourne <[email protected]> writes:
> The problem is we've *already* given the failed business that we despise
> a mechanism (copyright, now bolstered by EUCD/DMCA) for levying
> arbitrary taxes and imposing arbitrary regulations; replacing this with
> a modest tax on connection might be an improvement.  Bear in mind that
> we, who presently pay nothing for the service we don't use, are in
> danger (unless we can head the cartel off at the pass) of ending up

Except that the current situation *is* copyright protection is paid for by
society as a whole - and i suspect that the direct tax contributions of the
various corporations are a miniscule proportion of the same.

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