NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Is Warner Music Group's new music marketing experiment actually a new kind of tax that would have to be paid by all Internet users? That's just one of the contentious points of debate flying around the new efforts of the Warner-backed company called Choruss. The year-old non-profit wants university networks and the country's ISPs to collect a music licensing fee from all their customers. Choruss president Jim Griffin jabbed back at critics at last week's Digital Music Forum East in New York.
And what about those of us who don't want our money going to their organization? Why should I be denied internet access because I choose to boycott the RIAA?
Nobody should be forced to pay money to prop up an outdated, irrelevant system. If the music industry has to collect taxes to survive, then the music industry should no longer exist. We don't want socialized medicine, but apparently socialized music is okay? Bullshit.
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