Music Industry Proposes a Piracy Surcharge on ISPs - 0 views
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the music industry is for the first time seriously considering a file sharing surcharge that internet service providers would collect from users.
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seek an extra fee on broadband connections and to use the money to compensate rights holders for music that's shared online.
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Griffin's idea is to collect a fee from internet service providers -- something like $5 per user per month -- and put it into a pool that would be used to compensate songwriters, performers, publishers and music labels.
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