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RIAA allegedly seeking piracy tax on internet access

article published on 14 June, 2008

The folks at the Digital Freedom website are hearing whispers of a new tax some RIAA lobbyists are trying to get enacted which would be applied to every internet account in the US. The so-called Piracy Tax would be used to "compensate" record labels for internet piracy. Although this report doesn't conclusively show that the RIAA is actually working on such a proposal, they clearly started ... [ read the full article ]

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lynchGOP
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_ 		16. June 2008 @ 13:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The RIAA should be dismantled, and shut down, both morally, ethically, and righteously.......................PERIOD!!
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7thsinger
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_ 		16. June 2008 @ 23:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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It's a done deal.
The RIAA/MPAA and the trial lawyers are closely aligned with the Democrats, so expect this to go into effect in early 2009.
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ZippyDSM
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_ 		16. June 2008 @ 23:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by 7thsinger:
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It's a done deal.
The RIAA/MPAA and the trial lawyers are closely aligned with the Democrats, so expect this to go into effect in early 2009.
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Makes some sense lawyers want to sue everything not "PC" enough and the republicans want to maintain the status quo of low borne anal probing....
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Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
7thsinger
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_ 		16. June 2008 @ 23:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sure it makes some sense.

I'm just ever curious. :)
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_ 		16. June 2008 @ 23:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by 7thsinger:
 Sure it makes some sense.

I'm just ever curious. :)
:P
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Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
 
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