Comments on: Warner pushing for a compulsory music tax through ISPs

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:59:07 +0000

Wow Steve…a bit of punctuation in there, the occasional capital letter and I might believe you’re more than 12 years old and take you seriously. Honestly, how is anyone supposed to make sense of such confused rambling?

As for the tax – it won’t happen. And even if it were to happen, that would only be in the US. Would every record label try to push for the same sort of tax in every country that listens to music? It’s completely unworkable.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:36:28 +0000

1st off p2p is not illegal its the content being shared thats illegal from childporn to copyrights why do people always assume p2p is illegal because of a few bad apples in the bag so to speak i read in other articals that this will cover there works on p2p its a collective licence all you can eat for 5 bucks a month !

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:00:31 +0000

There is a tax already in Canada, a 100 pack of blank CDs cost two or three times as much as what it does in the U.S. Because of this supposedly people don’t get in trouble for downloading in Canada.

So say Warner gets their $5 or whatever per month surcharge. What about Sony, BMG, Universal, EMI and all the independents. Now you are talking about a $ 25 surcharge at least. I can’t think of a faster way of killing the internet than a $20 to $30 surcharge.

Or will $5 cover everything and all labels? And for how long before another “increase”? Will the industry really go along with this? So if this ever does go in effect… will P2P like Limewire and Kazaa be legal ?

Sounds like a pipe dream as the industry will never agree to it. Too many unanswered questions. This should have been proposed in 2000 instead of shutting the original Napster down.

By: Bill McMinn

Bill McMinn — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:10:40 +0000

There have been proposals for a tax on Internet service in Canada in the past couple of years coming from songwriters’ rights holders groups. The tax was supposed to help compensate the poor starving songwriters’ from the piracy of ignorant Internet users. This latest announcement from Warner Music is just a tax to compensate the poor recording companies.