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Music Tax Details From Source: Pay Us Not To Sue You
http://www.techcrunch.com/ 2008/ 03/ 28/ the-music-tax-details-of-the-plan-they-dont...
Update: More details of the scheme are here. Musicians themselves may just be crazy, but the music labels are dangerously stupid, and need to be stopped before they can do any further damage to the music industry. Case in point: Warner Music, fully
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Labels want music tax to be added to Internet bill
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/03/28/labels-want-music-tax-t...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
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Jim Griffin's Warner Music splash
http://opinion.latimes.com/bitplayer/2008/03/jim-griffins-wa...If Warner Music Group hired Jim Griffin just to provoke discussion about new business models, it's already gotten its money's worth. Portfolio.com started things off with a piece about Warner signing Griffin, a vocal critic of the major record labels'
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I'm All For Pre-Paid Music...But Not This Way
http://businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archi...I'm All For Pre-Paid Music...But Not This Way Posted by: Peter Burrows on March 28 Readers of this blog know I think music subscriptions are a far better value than download stores, and I wrote this post about why Apple should cut a deal to enable it to
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Music Industry Creates ISP Piracy Tax Organization - Long standing plan for protection racket becomes official
http://www.removethelabels.com/?p=15415Music Industry Creates ISP Piracy Tax Organization - Long standing plan for protection racket becomes official Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments û In addition to demanding that ISPs implement piracy filters that may not work, the
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Tax for Music Downloads?
http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/?p=9481Tax for Music Downloads? Filed under: Hollywood Economics Michael Kim @ 1:51 pm Warner Music Group in an attempt to stem the downward spiral in its financial situation caused by the illegal downloading and sharing of music has signed up industry veteran
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The Five Dollar Music Tax Ought to Be Voluntary
http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2008/03/the-five-doll...Everybody seems to be up in arms over the music industrys new proposal for a new American tax to save their industry. The always-raging Michael Arrington leads the charge: Good musicians will always find a way to make money. Others may have to follow
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Akamai Fires Engineer Who Spoke Out Against Music Tax
http://www.imeshedup.com/akamai-fires-engineer-who-spoke-out...Akamai Fires Engineer Who Spoke Out Against Music Tax May 2, 2008 · Filed Under TechCrunch · Comment Akamai engineering manager David Barrett, who spoke on the record as being opposed to the Warner Music sponsored music tax (more) last month, was fired on April 25, sources say. Barrett criticized the proposed music tax in an interview with Portfolio Magazine. The relevant text: David Barrett, engineering manager for peer-to-peer networks at Web content-delivery giant Akamai, says he’s opposed to it on principle. Griffin’s plan, he says, is tantamount to extortion, because it forces everyone to join. “It’s too late to charge people for what they’re already getting for free,” says Barrett. “This is just taxation of a basic, universal service that already exists, for the benefit a distant power that actively harasses the people being taxed without offering them any meaningful representation.” Warner Music is an Akamai client, and we have heard from one source that they “leaned on” Akamai following Barrett’s statements, and threatened to terminate their business relationship. We’ve confirmed that Barrett has been terminated, but we have not yet had a chance to speak to him or Akamai about the details of the termination. The timing is certainly suspicious though, to say the least. Barrett joined Akamai last year as part of the acquisition of Red Swoosh. CrunchBase Information Akamai Information provided by CrunchBase Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 Tags: Next Page » Categories BoingBoing CenterNetworks Engadget Gizmodo HowStuffWorks Lifehacker Mashable MPLOYR TechCrunch Techmeme Archives
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Akamai Fires Engineer Who Spoke Out Against Music Tax
http://www.theethoschallange.com/blog/?p=1473Akamai engineering manager David Barrett, who spoke on the record as being opposed to the Warner Music sponsored music tax (more) last month, was fired on April 25, sources say. Barrett criticized the proposed music tax in an interview with Portfolio Magazine. The relevant text: David Barrett, engineering manager for peer-to-peer networks at Web content-delivery giant Akamai, says he’s opposed to it on principle. Griffin’s plan, he says, is tantamount to extortion, because it forces everyone to join. “It’s too late to charge people for what they’re already getting for free,” says Barrett. “This is just taxation of a basic, universal service that already exists, for the benefit a distant power that actively harasses the people being taxed without offering them any meaningful representation.” Warner Music is an Akamai client, and we have heard from one source that they “leaned on” Akamai following Barrett’s statements, and threatened to terminate their business relationship. We’ve confirmed that Barrett has been terminated, but we have not yet had a chance to speak to him or Akamai about the details of the termination. The timing is certainly suspicious though, to say the least. Barrett joined Akamai last year as part of the acquisition of Red Swoosh. CrunchBase Information Akamai Information provided by CrunchBase Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0
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Akamai Fires Engineer Who Spoke Out Against Music Tax
http://www.techmacro.com/tech-blog/techcrunch/akamai-fires-e...[TechCrunch] — Akamai engineering manager David Barrett, who spoke on the record as being opposed to the Warner Bros. sponsored music tax (more) last month, has been fired, sources say. Barrett criticized the proposed music tax in an interview with Portfolio Magazine. Here is the relevant text: (more…)
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Akamai Fires Engineer Who Spoke Out Against Music Tax
http://www.dcbusinessread.com/torrent-archive/akamai-fires-e...Akamai Fires Engineer Who Spoke Out Against Music Tax xArchive No Comments » Akamai engineering manager David Barrett, who spoke on the record as being opposed to the Warner Bros. sponsored music tax (more) last month, has been fired, sources say. Barrett criticized the proposed music tax in an interview with Portfolio Magazine. Here is the relevant text: David Barrett, engineering manager for peer-to-peer networks at Web content-delivery giant Akamai, says he’s opposed to it on principle. Griffin’s plan, he says, is tantamount to extortion, because it forces everyone to join. “It’s too late to charge people for what they’re already getting for free,” says Barrett. “This is just taxation of a basic, universal service that already exists, for the benefit a distant power that actively harasses the people being taxed without offering them any meaningful representation.” Warner Bros. is an Akamai client, and we have heard from one source that they “leaned on” Akamai following Barrett’s statements, and threatened to terminate their business relationship. We’ve confirmed that Barrett has been terminated, but we have not yet had a chance to speak to him or Akamai about the details of the termination. The timing is certainly suspicious though, to say the least. Barrett joined Akamai last year as part of the acquisition of Red Swoosh. Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0
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