Yes, this is a popular idea that has been mooted. The Isle of Man have come closest to implementing it from what I've heard, however I don't believe it has gone through: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/jan/26/digitalmedia-digitalmusic
You've captured one of the main issues with this idea in your first paragraph: this tends to be discarded as an idea as there is an issue of who will track the data, and administer the divvying up of costs - and ISPs aren't exactly leaping to put their hands up. A much simpler and direct option is for music/film companies just to make their content available legally online so consumers can go to their online shop and purchase what they want. Of course, with the internet being a big copying machine, and copying being so easy, IMHO the cost of this media should be much cheaper so that the legal alternative is not a prohibitive one for financial reasons. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:35 PM, johannes contag <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > On 14/7/09 9:36 PM "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > so, perhaps the position to take, and one that might provoke people to > > think and might also catch some news-space, is to tell people that we > > dont want copyright at all... > > just thinking aloud a thought I had the other night: > how about an overall tax/fee rather than individual copyright payments? > like > a broadcasting fee for the internet but tailored to usage parameters. might > require some pretty severe, privacy-invading tracking of content though if > the resulting revenue-pie was to be split fairly... > > so the idea might be backward-thinking garbage, but I think if there was no > constant pay/steal right/wrong pressure, people's download behaviour would > be much more balanced - i.e. just what they actually want, and not all > series of the wire at once (just in case its a once-in-a-lifetime > opportunity). after all, most download-type entertainment is pretty crap, > and that's a lot easier to realise if there's no entry fee associated with > it. > > or am I barking up completely the wrong tree? > > jo > > > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ >
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