Were you aware that we entered the digital age about 10 years ago? If so, how do you see this new free digital distribution system fitting into your existing business model?

I guess suing NetFlix and RedBox is all the answer I need. (Not you personally, mind you, but your industry in general.)

Thank you for your time,
Persistent Vicarious Copywrong Infringer.

Ok, so you call it a ‘license fee’ instead of a levy.
As mentioned ad-nauseum .. no matter what you call it it’s still the same damn thing, and the money generated from this
‘license’ fee will go the same route as the money from the blank media levy. Not a dime from that gets to anyone but a
middleman .. like you.

Let’s make a deal ….

If you can manage to get money ALREADY BEING COLLECTED through the CD levy to the artists mentioned in number 5, and TRANSPARENTLY so, then
just maybe I could bring myself to think about supporting this. But I already know that you can’t/won’t. No one with a working brain cell is going to
support throwing more money for nothing at an industry that already has several moneyboxes in place and won’t allow ANYONE to see just where it all
goes.

But that’s a real nice fluffy puff post from you, thanks for that anyway. Glad to see the little guys are thought of at all,
even though it’s clear you still think we’re mindless baboons.

1. Our current proposal does not support or advocate a levy or tax of any kind, or of any amount, including the $10.00 amount mentioned.

2. As is clearly stated in our paper on the proposal, available at our website http://www.songwriters.ca/proposalsummary.aspx and http://www.songwriters.ca/proposaldetailed.aspx, musicians, songwriters, performers and all rights-holders including record labels would be compensated from the revenues the proposed business model might generate.

3. Canadians households who do not wish to music file-share would pay nothing. There would be no charges of any kind.

4. Canadians households who would like unlimited music file-sharing would be licensed to do so legally. All Canadians would have the choice to opt in or out.

5. Since independent musicians are now by some counts over 30% of the market place much of the revenue derived would go to encourage new talent and allow struggling music creators to make a living.

The S.A.C. is a small not for profit organization. We will continue to advocate what we believe are reasonable solutions that are fair to consumers, music creators and rights-holders.

Thank you

Eddie Schwartz – President
Don Quarles – Executive Director
Songwriters Association of Canada

ISP’s are already investing in this, in use of the soon-to-be-freed frequency spectrum from TV-bands. Guaranteed people will start up their own networks and put the ISP’s aside if the ISP’s amalgamate. Hardware vendors won’t sell to just ISPs.

Sure the ISP’s will try to make it illegal as this would be competition, but like legality ever stopped people from having satellite dishes that access content the end user isn’t registered to access.

If the ISP’s ALL band together ( big cash incentives ) like the MafiAA does, where will anyone go ?

Nah. 75%. Within four weeks.

Cheers!

That’s what would happen.

Not that I would ever use it, but where is the MAFIAA’s equivalent of usenet? Don’t hold your breath, because ‘that’ will never, EVER exist.

1. ” …and once the songwriters have their little dig in your pocket book, then comes film and movie fees, newspaper fees for reading news, e-publisher fees for books, your mothers crochet pattern maker, the major labels charging for their recordings, the minor labels owned by the major labels, the recipe makers, the photographers groups, the list is endless and you wind up with an extra on your bill making internet too expensive to have but have given you no protections for the payments. ”

2. “What about those of us who have absolutely no interest in commercial music? Hypothetically (in my case, if this were to come to the U.S.), why should I pay $10 a month for something I’m not going to download? ”

I have yet to see a good reason FOR an internet tax/levy/whatever they’re calling it this week.

Instead of forcing a $10 fee on all internet users via ISP’s, including users who don’t download at all (which obviously isn’t fair), why not instead create a web page where people have the OPTION of signing up for “protection”? All the different copyright based industries can do this, with the average joe getting to choose which ones they’re willing to pay for based on their own internet usage. This is really the only options that is fair to everyone. Those that don’t pay will be fair game for law enforcement should they be caught, while those that pay will be protected. Best of all, the various industries get to FAIRLY monetize something that they weren’t previously. Start at a price most folks would be willing to hand their credit card details over for, then once everyone has become accustomed to how great it is to download without worries, jack the price up on them. Everybody wins and nobody wins all at the same time, exactly the way the universe likes to see things run.

PS: Don’t wait too long to jump on this idea. As I’m sure you’re aware, your time is limited. You do not have forever to come up with a solution to the so called “piracy” problem. Unless, of course, you’re lying about your particular industry being in its death throes. Personally I feel that if you keep trying to greedily force all the people of the world to jump onto your bandwagon, as you’ve repeatedly attempted up until now, you will fail miserably just as you always have. Remember, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result. If and when you fall, it will have been greed, not piracy, that bought about your demise, something I have no doubt the history books of the distant future will say on the matter. Have fun thinking on that while you ponder how to get ISP’s and the government to back another of your silly scatterbrained ideas.

It’s only when rip-off government, a private corporation mind you, got into the act that taxes were imposed on those who don’t know better. Anytime the filthy rich get involved you know it’s a scam and fraud, as it has always been. This way the small guy or operator suffers, now this includes artists.

Then we have the “usury” system of bankers, business, corporations and certain societies that create fiat money system keeping population in debt at all times, “it’s called the economy stupid”. In short time economy will crash again, as it’s designed to do by those same idiots who created this fraud, and since it’s based on debt and no real money everyone will go hungry accept those who can pay with gold or silver or can live off the land. I wish it would hurry up and get it over with.

Then you will see those who have been stealing from rightful owners family lands will be stung up in short order. Land they have stolen redistributed to people who need it and can take care of it sustainably. All that lengthy drivel of legislation, acts and other control mechanisms will die with them.

As we see today in Tunisia, Egypt and almost every place on Earth, communities are well prepared to take care of themselves in a peaceful manner without bureaucrats or any other power hungry idiot. It’s spreading and soon enough it will be here as well, a worker’s revolt. Start building and Ark since those power hungry idiots will stop at nothing to keep their tyranny active, including the destruction of Earth. When this happens you can expect nukes being used on all parts of Earth, subsequently creating volcanoes to blow and giant title waves shortly thereafter.

This is what greed, business and economy is all about. Doesn’t mater if it’s RIAA, CRIA, Mass Media, MAFIAA, Movie Industry, Big Oil, Big Sugar or any other thing they own and run. It all ends up in the hands of those investors you don’t see, investors in Bank of Canada, Bank of England, IMF, World Bank, Vatican, Central Bank of every country and specifically ones who are at the top of THE biggest rip-off scheme this planet has ever seen.

It’s all here on this website if you have the balls to look close enough and basic skills to put the pieces together.

Canadian musicians: Please do not scapegoat P2P and the internet for your gross lack of talent. Just like real life, nobody is listening to you via P2P either, because your “product” sounds like felines making love.

First off, NOBODY is listening to gawd-awful Canadian music unless they live in the arctic and can only get CBC radio. American new music is terrible, and our new stuff is just the bottom of the barrel. There must be a whole 6 people on the continent that have even heard of this guy. But he needs to get paid, right? After all, we must protect our “culture” by subsidizing terrible artists on the taxpayers back.

I listen to classical music, most of which I ripped from my own CD collection 10 years ago. I don’t listen to any shitty new music. But this guy thinks I should subsidize his lazy ass just because he sells 3 albums a year? Get bent. Get a job a McDonalds if you need money assshole, like everyone else.

I’ve got enough bureaucrats lifting money from my pocket, I don’t need to pay for any more parasites thank you.

The tax on cassette tapes that goes straight to the record industry’s pockets is just one such example.