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Re: Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:07:23 -0700
________________________________________ From: David P. Reed [dpreed () reed com] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:09 PM To: David Farber Cc: ip Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs Music guys (Griffin), ISP's (Glass) ... all want to get the government to apply a tax to feed their coffers. What ever happened to competition and free markets? Reminds me of pre-Elizabethan (Queen Elizabeth I) England, when a patent was not based on an invention - a "patent" in those days was a monopoly on any trade or business granted by the King to his deserving buddies and courtiers. In 1624, England outlawed all such "letters patent" by the King to his courtiers. But we love to bring them back in modern America - viz. ASCAP/BMI, the "piracy tax" applied to videotape, etc. (Elizabeth initiated the modern patent concept that requires an invention as a way to break the power of the guilds and fix the balance of trade - not for any particularly good reason like encouraging invention - that framing of / rationale for gov't patent and copyright handouts was first crystallized in the US Constituion). ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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