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Labels want music tax to be added to Internet bill
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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 gold-dipped quail eggs and the blood of supple young virgins while paying the industry back for all the piracy that is going on. The tax is really a "covenant not to sue," according TC, which says that if you pay this $5 a month and you are found with pirated music on your PC or in any of your body cavities, the labels will not sue you.
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Weekend Law Links
http://www.ignorantiajuris.com/2008/03/29/weekend-law-links/The Siegel family, heirs of Superman’s creator, have been awarded the rights to Superman. Via Warren Ellis. The music industry proposes a music tax on basically every consumer of bandwidth, applied at the ISP level. So if your ISP agrees, you have to pay. Some are calling it a “covenant not to sue” that amounts to extortion. Where the law stands on virtual property.
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