December 04, 2003

Should ISP subscribers pay for P2P?

Distributed Computing Industry Association proposal: peer-to-peer users would pay a flat monthly fee to the networks or to Internet service providers, which would be divided up among the record labels and musicians whose songs were downloaded. [Peer-To-Peer Group Floats Scheme to Pay for Music or Should ISP subscribers pay for P2P?]

Don't be surprised though if the current p2p networks just have their own self interests in mind with this or similar proposals.

See also: Group seeks political power for P2P: A new nonprofit organization aimed at welding file-swapping and open-source computing advocates into a political force is launching online this week.


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