Hell no...

[Toonshorty]

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/04/05/uk-law-firm-calls-for-broadband-isp-customers-to-pay-a-new-music-tax.html


New Media Law (NML), a UK based law firm, has leapt on the Digital Economy Act's (DEA) recent problems by proposing their own solution to "illegal" internet copyright infringement (piracy) - a £1 per month music tax.

As Mr. Smith would say...

Awwww Hell No...

[Lorem-Ipsum]

:picard:

[Riskitall84]

Just no!

[Toonshorty]

http://blog.internetnews.com/apatrizio/do-not-want-dog.jpg

If this went through I'd love to see them feel the wrath of Anonymous.

[Bat]

It'll never pass, they'd be essentially subsidising the music industry.

[Spaceboy]

:picard:

+1 this!

Only been mooted on and off for the last 10 years :picard:

[k3vst3r]

what will they think of next

[Aaron]

If this went through, I would have no problem downloading every and any track and album that I wanted, if I was having to pay a tax on my broadband connection....

[Lorem-Ipsum]

+1 this!

Only been mooted on and off for the last 10 years :picard:

And just to clarify my first post for teh lulz:

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll110/Kapoodle123/tactical_facepalm.jpg
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa6/witchbrow/Decorated%20images/HouseFacePalm-1.jpg

[k3vst3r]

If this went through, I would have no problem downloading every and any track and album that I wanted, if I was having to pay a tax on my broadband connection....

i know sounds good doesn't it, but reckon they would increase the amount

[jointhedotz]

If this went through, I would have no problem downloading every and any track and album that I wanted, if I was having to pay a tax on my broadband connection....

Agree with this, you can't get something for nothing for ever, that said....the money would never get to the people who should actually receive it so it's just another cash cow in the making (like road tax, which....er.....mostly isn't spent on the roads suprisingly)

[spleenharvester]

:picard::picard:

[FunkY]

If this went through, I would have no problem downloading every and any track and album that I wanted, if I was having to pay a tax on my broadband connection....

If they did this I'd want everything in flac, and I'd download everything I could find...

If they were going to do this, they should host the data themselves for free download... I'm pretty sure the wonga would cover it... For every 1 million people with an internet connection that's 12 million £ a year... I'd also expect to see wider format choice (I can't see many people wanting .wav but there's bound to be somebody) different bitrate mp3s, flac etc...

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[benzeman]

Me no like!!!

[andyn]

Never going to happen. Just some nobody law firm making a ridiculous 'proposal' in order to obtain some free publicity and marketing.

[alexnifty]

Never going to happen. Just some nobody law firm making a ridiculous 'proposal' in order to obtain some free publicity and marketing.

Totally agree. It's so blatant.

[asha1]

please not another tax, i'm 20 and the taxman already bumrapes me :(

[FunkY]

Oops... Sorry about the image, I had to go and look at it again. Didn't even notice the fbomb in there :(

[ArthurHucksake]

Yeah, good idea. Put an extra £1 tax on each CD. Give the pirate more incentive to pirate. LoL

Or just tax CD media/blank discs more, not like many people buy it anymore anyways.

[mikeyuk3]

lol they can sod off if they bring anything like this to the uk swear im moveing, or i will use somebody's internet connection who i do not like very much :P

[theste]

this is just wrong :mad:

[FunkY]

lol they can sod off if they bring anything like this to the uk swear im moveing, or i will use somebody's internet connection who i do not like very much :P

Free wifi for the win :D

[Col]

So ... it's a tax for everyone and not just those who illegally download music? Somehow I can see this making people download pirate music more. Money. When will people learn that the world revolves around money. Charge a tax and people will expect something back from it, like free music, especially those who would pay the tax and never actually benefit from it.

[Lahn]

I doubt this particular proposal would pass as it's just outright silly, but silly things do happen..

Other countries have put taxes on record-able media like CDs, and in Denmark you are required to pay TV license if you have any device internet-connected with 256kb/sec+ - sorry, it's now called a "media license". Yup, that's right, everybody with mobiles pretty much!