On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:27:53AM -0400, David Honig wrote:
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is planning to slap new levies on computer, telecommunications and Internet products to ensure that authors are properly rewarded for the use of their work, a newspaper said Wednesday.
Is this really a bad thing? Music is becomming a public service. When author cannot control their works (as is happening now) the works basically become a public service - and the way public services are funded is by govt taxes. If they stop trying (and failing) to control content and just use this - well it's not perfect - but it's better than a DMCA/UCITA world. My worry is that they distribute this money only to the big record companies and screw the 'real musicians' AGL -- I never let my schooling get in the way of my education.