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EFF Proposes Flet Fee for P2P
posted by mpawlo on Thursday February 26, @07:06AM
from the not-happening-in-your-near-future dept.
Copyright What if peer-to-peer music enthusiasts and file sharers paid a fee of USD 5 per month to compensate artists?

That would solve the file-sharing dilemma, according to EFF staff attorney Fred von Lohman. Similar solutions have been introduced before, maybe the most eloquently by professor William Fisher, III, in a Cnet News.com column titled 'A royalties plan for file sharing'.

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    No! (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 26, @08:20AM (#1484)
    I, as are thousands of others, am boycotting all RIAA labels. I do NOT want them to get one red cent of my money. I buy my CDs directly from the musicians themselves, in local bars. Most of it is much better quality music than the dreck they play on the radio. P2P is a mechanism by which these artists, many of whom are personal friends of mine, can get their music heard worldwide. The reason the labels are against P2P is because they can tell the radio stations what to play (so long as they pony up some cash to pay the radio station) but they can't tell me what I must upload on a P2P share. I have hundreds of files available for upload, and not a single one of them is unauthorized. Rather than feed the monster, I would prefer that we just starve it. Nobody needs the major labels any more- not the musicians, not the customers. Cartainly not the record stores, who the RIAA is trying to put out of business with their paid for downloads. Keep your RIAA dung off of our indie networks! -Steve McGrew email greplawspam@mcgrew.info PS- "please don't use too many caps..." The original subject was "NO!" The intent was to not only yell, but scream from the rooftops. You are (ironically) censoring my speech by not allowing caps.
    Re:No! (Score:1)
    by LuYu on Friday February 27, @02:02AM (#1485)
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    I could not agree more. This and Professor Fisher's plan should be contingent upon the RIAA being left out. The RIAA's actions prove that they are a corrupt monopoly that serves no useful purpose and harms everyone with suppression of choice and variety in the marketplace.

    Current technology allows the elimination of this fat, useless leech. Without the RIAA in the middle, artists stand to make more money and consumers stand to spend less. It would be perfect if the RIAA did not spend millions of dollars in political bribery to protect itself.

    We are all more ignorant because of the RIAA. Their members have suppressed technology and collaborated to fix prices. They hate education, they hate children, they hate old people, and they hate the rest of us, too. Cut them loose. Let them sell their Manhattan Bridges elsewhere.

    The RIAA needs to lose their funding before we lose more of our rights.

    "Anyone who doesn't quote me is paraphrasing."

    Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. - Isaac Asimov

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