While the entertainment industry would probably love this concept (a new source of income while retaining the right to sue), I doubt the ISP’s would go for it. Most of them are already trying to rope as many consumers as possible into contracts, all in an effort to force people to consume everything from them, thus maximizing their profits in the process. They aren’t going to want to share any of that with anyone. Some say it is about money, some say control. I say wave enough cash under anyone nose and you can make them say or do whatever you want. Even the gatekeepers have their price.

Please don’t take me the wrong way. While I love the idea of being able to download anything I want, any time I want (which I already do, a pirate born and bred), I also can’t help but imagine how nice it would be to do all these activities without worrying whether my door is about to be broken down by law enforcement simply because I want to watch my favorite TV show or movie in a higher quality format than what my cable provider affords, and more conveniently. Ever since I moved and began bundling everything with one single provider, I haven’t been able to change my IP address like I used to (new equipment). I also encrypt EVERYTHING. It would be nice to be able to step out of the shadow of paranoia, if only for a little while, until the next big struggle comes along at least. As the movie quote goes, “I’d buy that for a dollar!”.

about 25,000,000 people have net now, @ 10 $ a pop that’s 250,000,000 $
so they want to steal 250 Million from Canadians besides getting paid by industry already?

Now how much of this will Songwriters get? If Artists are any indication then it’s next to nil [zero] as corporations steal most of it.
Smell the rotten deal yet?

These old-fashioned content industry goons can fuuck off and die. They can get a job at walmart or starve to death in the gutter, just like everyone else.

No $10 a month, no persecuting people for sharing information, and no more guilt trips about how music won’t exist unless the record companies make massive profits.

THIS IS THE NEW REALITY. WE WILL FREELY SHARE ALL FORMS OF INFORMATION. YOU CAN NOT STOP US. WE ARE SMARTER THAN YOU. ACCEPT IT AND ADAPT, OR GET A JOB IN FAST FOOD.

If they bring sue-em-all to this country, I can personally GUARANTEE that a significant technological advance in P2P will be revealed that will provide total anonymity for everyone. P2P is still in it’s infancy, and it WILL be anonymized. Then what are they going to do? Who will they sue, and with what proof? ISP DPI isn’t going to help, it is already useless for content identification purposes against even weak-azz bittorrent DH+RC4 message stream encryption.

The bottom line, Eddie Shitz, is WE WIN, YOU LOSE. Stop embarrassing yourself with stupid ideas.

Exactly.

Cheers!

“Naturally”, the ISPs will be the “preferred choice” by all the “industries” to perform both the monitoring and the collection of the extra fees, as the providers not only run the pipes that would need to be monitored, but they already have a billing mechanism to add the levy money to.
But, we all know the big incentive to have our providers do this is not “efficiency of process”.

It has more to do with the fact that the content industries would like to see all this happen ON EVERYONE ELSE’S DIME, as they’ve already proven to us. The content industries seem to think that we, along with our providers, actually OWE this kind of thing to them! (Since we’ve all contributed so much to the “obvious devastation” of their business models.)

We also know the ISPs haven’t been very receptive to such plans, and why should they be?! Afterall, they’re being told everyone that holds some kind of “intellectual property rights” wants them to:
1) monitor all the traffic for their “property”
2) determine who should be charged these “fees”, and what that charge should be
3) collect this charge, effectively raising their customers’ internet bills
4) add more complex tasks to their billing systems
5) make themselves liable for for any “shortcomings” in the collection process (IP holders will, of course, want this money “guaranteed” to them)
6) absorb all the labour costs of these processes

Since ISPs won’t have any of this, we would likely end up with some sort of “forced comprimise”, such as the content industries wanting to place some of THEIR people inside the walls of our providers, thereby gaining access to a wealth of stuff they have absolutely no business being anywhere near. You’d also have to get ready to have police being handed open access to your providers’ connections as well. It doesn’t take too much thought to see how very fucked up this scenario would be.

And, don’t forget, the content industries aren’t saying they will accept EVERYTHING WE DO in exchange for a levy/license/tax/ whatever. They actually want to have their cake, eat it, and then wash it down with our milk. They’ll want control of who offers the downloads, while still being able to sue the uploaders! Remember “uploading” will still be viewed as “illegal distribution”, and protocols like BitTorrent will “automatically” be “breaking the new agreement”.

There’s so much more to this you can add yourself, just by applying a tiny bit of thought, but I’ll cut the prophetizing at this point. People need to just think about the implications of such things before blindly accepting them.

NO WAY!

They can kiss my ass. I will rather cancel my internet!

This is not a real post. Please ignore.

Just that it shouldn’t be imposed on all Internet-users. That would make it a “music industry subsidy tax”. But on a opt-in basis, I would consider it.

A~O