With CD sales dwindling fast, DRM dead, and major artists starting to give
their music away-it is clear that record labels need to do something drastic to
lure pirates away from illegal downloading. As
Wired and
ArsTechnica point out, one of the ideas on the table is to generate a file
sharing surcharge that would be collected by ISPs-something like $5 a month for
unlimited downloads with the proceeds being doled out to artists based on the
number of times their music was traded during the month. Seems a little too good
to be true, but it does beg the question: would $5 unlimited P2P be enough to
convert you from a life of piracy? (thanks
Gizmodo)