Comments on: Surcharge for sharing music? http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/webdifference/2008/03/17/surcharge-for-sharing-music/ A class blog for Harvard Law\'s \"The Web Difference\" (2008) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:41:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mpollock http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/webdifference/2008/03/17/surcharge-for-sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-79 mpollock Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:27:33 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/webdifference/2008/03/17/surcharge-for-sharing-music/#comment-79 $5 every month is actually pretty huge in my mind. That's about how much I spend monthly on legal downloads on iTunes. I guess I feel like I'm part of the non-file-sharing public to which the costs of others' actions are being shifted, and I don't like it! :-) And somehow I doubt that, even if passed, this will stop the RIAA from further action... $5 every month is actually pretty huge in my mind. That’s about how much I spend monthly on legal downloads on iTunes. I guess I feel like I’m part of the non-file-sharing public to which the costs of others’ actions are being shifted, and I don’t like it! :-)

And somehow I doubt that, even if passed, this will stop the RIAA from further action…

]]> By: kparker http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/webdifference/2008/03/17/surcharge-for-sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-74 kparker Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:19:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/webdifference/2008/03/17/surcharge-for-sharing-music/#comment-74 I don't know, this isn't the worst idea (and something that we have seen elsewhere in the DAT sections of copyright). I haven't thought through this real hard but I wouldn't mind paying $5 a year to have the RIAA stop suing individual people. It seems like a small price to pay and while the lack of a relationship between price and use is a little economically inefficient, when the price is only $5 I'm not sure that argument carries a whole lot of weight. Of course, if the RIAA still keeps just suing people and being meddlesome than the $5 isn't worth it, but if they did stop that wouldn't be a bad thing. I don’t know, this isn’t the worst idea (and something that we have seen elsewhere in the DAT sections of copyright).

I haven’t thought through this real hard but I wouldn’t mind paying $5 a year to have the RIAA stop suing individual people. It seems like a small price to pay and while the lack of a relationship between price and use is a little economically inefficient, when the price is only $5 I’m not sure that argument carries a whole lot of weight.

Of course, if the RIAA still keeps just suing people and being meddlesome than the $5 isn’t worth it, but if they did stop that wouldn’t be a bad thing.

]]> By: mpollock http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/webdifference/2008/03/17/surcharge-for-sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-73 mpollock Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:01:48 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/webdifference/2008/03/17/surcharge-for-sharing-music/#comment-73 I agree. This seems like a shameless attempt on the part of the downward-spiraling record labels to shift the cost of their business failure to the internet-using public at large! I agree. This seems like a shameless attempt on the part of the downward-spiraling record labels to shift the cost of their business failure to the internet-using public at large!

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