Warner Music is proposing a $5 “music tax” that will be tacked on to your ISP bill monthly, ensuring you will hate the labels even more. The tax would generate $20 billion a year in revenues, enabling industry executives to maintain their diet of gold-dipped quail eggs and the blood of supple young virgins while paying the industry back for all the piracy that is going on.
The tax is really a “covenant not to sue,” according TC, which says that if you pay this $5 a month and you are found with pirated music on your PC or in any of your body cavities, the labels will not sue you. While this strategy might be have worked in prohibition-era Chicago, it probably won’t work on the Internet.
We’ll be watching this with great glee and fondness. This is the end of the big labels, friends, and they’re flailing.
I wonder when record label exec jokes will surpass lawyer jokes in quantity and quality.
I am also proposing the very same bill, only with the proceeds going to me.
Pay the $5/month and I promise I will not sue you.
Seriously.
These are organized crime tactics. The RIAA has got to be the most inane, out-of-touch bunch of old geezers I have ever had the displeasure to have passing knowledge of. What a bunch of cooks!
The tax is really “Extortion”
What?
This will never fly. It is just someone’s wet dream.
Contractually, it doesn’t have a leg to stand on. I couldn’t find another source in this posting that didn’t go back to TechCrunch, so I’m not sure where the story came from, but it sounds like BS.
Kinda’ like that e-mail that goes around saying that the post office is going to start charging for e-mails because theyre losing money.
Actually if it was for $5 I could download all of the music I wanted legally, from any source, I would do it. That’s a good deal considering Napster and such charges $10-15/month for DRMed medium quality selected songs (all you can download). Now adding to everyone’s bill is a bad idea.