Monday, March 31, 2008
Warner Proposes $5/Month "Music Tax" for MP3 Downloads
Warner Music Group has proposed a $5/month music tax to be charged by ISPs for 24-hour access to high-quality music downloads:
- ARS Technica: Warner Music Floats ISP Surcharge Idea for Unlimited P2P Music, by Jacqui Cheng
- CNet News:
- Jim Griffin Says ISP Music Tax Only One Possibility, by Greg Sandoval
- Warner Music's Tune of Folly, by Greg Sandoval
- Conde Nast: Fee For All, by Sam Gustin
- L.A. Times: Jim Griffin's Warner Music Splash
- PC Magazine: Warner's Music "Tax" Is a Good Idea, by Lance Ulanoff
- Slashdot: Collective Licensing for Web-Based Music Distribution
- Tech Crunch:
- The Music Industry's New Extortion Scheme, by Michael Arrington
- Music Tax Details From Source: "Pay Us Not to Sue You," by Michael Arrington
- Tech Dirt: Warner Music Latest to Jump on Music Tax Bandwagon
- Tech Spot: Warner Music Group Asks ISPs to Enforce Music Tax?, by Justin Mann
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2008/03/warner-proposes.html
Comments
good idea in principal, but $5 a month, levied world wide ?? I,m thinking not so much compensatory, as profit boosting.
$1 or equivalent, across most of the world, certainly enough, to both compensate and pay for incurred expenses.
Posted by: Fanakapan | Mar 31, 2008 5:57:47 PM
Horrible idea. No principle behind it. No one owns the net.
Posted by: Yogi | Apr 1, 2008 2:21:54 AM
If you would have actually read the link when you sign up for internet access yo have the option of paying the tax or not. I still don't agree with the plan but if you don't download music you won't be charged anything.
Posted by: Ben | Apr 1, 2008 5:43:19 AM
So who gets the money. I bet not the artists.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/02/05/015231
Posted by: steve | Apr 1, 2008 11:43:49 AM
One possibility for whom? I do not download music, yet you want to tax me for some else's download? That is socialism.
Posted by: Steve | Mar 31, 2008 12:36:48 PM