"While retailers like Amazon and Wal-Mart are making slow and steady progress into the realm of DRM-free music sales and the MPAA has its sights set on filtering the web, the Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) has proposed an entirely different plan for settling the war between consumers, pirates and big media studios. Based on the observation that the thriving P2P market demonstrates consumers' preference for sharing music instead of paying per-track or per-album, SAC proposes that each Internet-using Canadian citizen be charged a minimal $5 monthly fee directly by their ISPs. This collective monthly license fee would then be split among artists and content owners, generating new revenues and allowing former pirates to sleep better at night now that they can legally trade music for a nominal fee." [ars technica]
This proposal remains a pipe dream for yanks. Down here, the RIAA snoops and stacks the deck, and it's business as usual for everyone else.
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