Comments on: RIAA Now Open to "You Must Be a Criminal" Tax on ISP Fees http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080314/riaa-now-open-to-you-must-be-a-criminal-tax-on-isp-fees/ from other Web sites Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ned McHugh http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080314/riaa-now-open-to-you-must-be-a-criminal-tax-on-isp-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Ned McHugh Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:47:08 +0000 http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080314/riaa-now-open-to-you-must-be-a-criminal-tax-on-isp-fees/#comment-257 I think this is a good idea. But let’s not forget the others who are suffer from piracy. There are the movie studios; surely they should be compensated, so add $5. The software companies suffered piracy long before the record companies, so add $5. What about television studios, they have lost advertising revenue to piracy, add $5. In reality why limit it to just the suffering musical artists? Why not include long suffering writers? Newspapers have lost revenue from lost subscriptions to online versions (advertising does not account for all the money lost), so add $5. I am sure book publishers have also lost money to projects like Google’s Print Library Project (while not strictly piracy it surely affects their bottom line), so add $5. The reality of the music industries proposal is it is about trying to legislate the propping up of a failing industry. Music is just another form of entertainment media and now has to compete much more intensely. Interesting how the video game industry that has suffered piracy longer has managed to flourish during the same period. I think this is a good idea. But let’s not forget the others who are suffer from piracy. There are the movie studios; surely they should be compensated, so add $5. The software companies suffered piracy long before the record companies, so add $5. What about television studios, they have lost advertising revenue to piracy, add $5. In reality why limit it to just the suffering musical artists? Why not include long suffering writers? Newspapers have lost revenue from lost subscriptions to online versions (advertising does not account for all the money lost), so add $5. I am sure book publishers have also lost money to projects like Google’s Print Library Project (while not strictly piracy it surely affects their bottom line), so add $5.

The reality of the music industries proposal is it is about trying to legislate the propping up of a failing industry. Music is just another form of entertainment media and now has to compete much more intensely. Interesting how the video game industry that has suffered piracy longer has managed to flourish during the same period.

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