Posted by: Alex Valentine
on August 26, 2003 10:57 PM
As an EFF member, I was shocked when <A HREF="http://www.eff.org/homes/fred_von_lohmann.html" TITLE="eff.org">Fred Von Lohmann</a eff.org> starting pushing an ISP tax to pay record companies. People have taken this idea and made it their own, this article is another example.
The flat fee model is exceptionally flawed because there is simply no way to fairly distribute earnings. The model itself would simply become a subsidy, propping up the obsolete recording industry business model. There would be no way to meter P2P use, because people could always use encryption. The only way the RIAA would even consider this is as a TAX on all isp users, which most isp users don't use P2P in the first place.
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Posted by: Alex Valentine on August 26, 2003 10:57 PMThe flat fee model is exceptionally flawed because there is simply no way to fairly distribute earnings. The model itself would simply become a subsidy, propping up the obsolete recording industry business model. There would be no way to meter P2P use, because people could always use encryption. The only way the RIAA would even consider this is as a TAX on all isp users, which most isp users don't use P2P in the first place.
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