Music Outlaws, There's a New Sheriff in Town

**Done_Fishin** · 03-29-2008, 06:52 AM

Music Outlaws, There's a New Sheriff in Town

Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Warner Music Group has tapped industry veteran Jim Griffin to spearhead a controversial plan to bundle a monthly fee into consumers' Internet service bills for unlimited access to music.

for the rest of the story see link above .

**ashumann12** · 03-31-2008, 01:33 AM

I would not mind as long as the fee is fair and reasonable. The artists should get their fair share.

ebackhus · 04-01-2008, 05:31 PM

But will they get it?

I don't use the Internet to download music so I see it as rather worthless.

**Done_Fishin** · 04-02-2008, 10:08 AM

I have used the internet for music .. but never really was into doing much more than listening to a sound .. if I was charged for it regardless I would probably download using every bit of bandwidth available .. just because i could .. and I think a lot of people out there who are using P2P might do exactly the same if they thought that it was a part of the fee .. and then lets see just what bandwidth would be left ..

**Der Rabe** · 04-03-2008, 05:50 AM

fishing you have a great point there. I haven't downloaded music from the internet in a long time, but if i was paying for it anyways, then i would have no hesitation to go out and find that song that I heard on the radio or that has been running through my head. I think the idea of a fee added to you internet bill for downloading songs is actually not to bad of an idea, music artist get paid for thier work that way and the rest of us don't have to worry about thousands of dollar law suits over downloading a song or 2. My only hold back on this is what kind of fee are we talking and would it apply to dial up users or just high speed? Personally I think it should apply to dial up users but at a lower rate. maybe 2 bucks a months for dial up and 10 bucks for HSIU (high speed internet users). If you got higher then 10 bucks then I would think it was more like a fine vs. a convenience fee

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ashumann12 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Alabama-usa Posts: 3,945 OS: Vista Ultimate SP1 (64bit) My System Blog Entries: 1	Re: Music Outlaws, There's a New Sheriff in Town I would not mind as long as the fee is fair and reasonable. The artists should get their fair share. __________________ Adam Sr.

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04-03-2008, 05:50 AM	#5 (permalink)
Der Rabe Watching from the shadows Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Currently In Michigan Posts: 1,140 OS: XP Sp3, Vista sp1, 2003 sp2	Re: Music Outlaws, There's a New Sheriff in Town fishing you have a great point there. I haven't downloaded music from the internet in a long time, but if i was paying for it anyways, then i would have no hesitation to go out and find that song that I heard on the radio or that has been running through my head. I think the idea of a fee added to you internet bill for downloading songs is actually not to bad of an idea, music artist get paid for thier work that way and the rest of us don't have to worry about thousands of dollar law suits over downloading a song or 2. My only hold back on this is what kind of fee are we talking and would it apply to dial up users or just high speed? Personally I think it should apply to dial up users but at a lower rate. maybe 2 bucks a months for dial up and 10 bucks for HSIU (high speed internet users). If you got higher then 10 bucks then I would think it was more like a fine vs. a convenience fee