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okay, cool, cut the RIAA out of the action and let'em rot. it oculd be tricky to distribute the money, but hey, we have all this computer and networking and banking technology, eh ? let's put it to good use. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/05/14/music-kazaa.htm An unlikely alliance of swap-service Kazaa and telephone and Internet giant Verizon is floating a proposal to break the logjam of lawsuits: Computer manufacturers, blank CD makers, ISPs and software firms such as Kazaa will pool funds and pay artists directly. Kazaa lobbyist Phil Corwin says a $1-a-month fee per user on Internet providers alone (it's unclear whether costs would be passed along to subscribers) would generate $2 billion yearly: "We're talking about a modest fee on all the parties who benefit from the availability of this content." Recording Industry Association of America president Hilary Rosen calls the proposal "the most disingenuous thing I've ever heard. It's ridiculous." [ I like it already ] But Guerinot isn't ready to dismiss it out of hand: "Any model that starts to accommodate monetizing the artists is worth looking into." (Guerinot is "a board member of Don Henley's and Sheryl Crow's Recording Artists Coalition and the manager of No Doubt, Beck and The Offspring http://www.recordingartistscoalition.com/ ................................. To find out, what address you were using, when joining MP3-Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/whocommie.html
