[xrp]

Yeah, like this will fly...

The peer to peer applications that allow for file swapping will was born in the Internet underground and cannot be stopped. The RIAA is fighting a battle as winnable as the US War on Drugs. Sure, ISPs could block file downloading and also identify the song files that people are downloading, etc, but once this starts up, the file swapping will just morph again. Soon they'll move to encrypted forms of file swapping (this already exists in some underground circles) and at that point, the ISPs won't know what the heck the end-users are doing/downloading.

[zarf]

A flat fee, regarless of all he mumbo jumbo, will be charged. Then you can download anything you want.

I don't understand how intellectual property, songs and songwriters, books and authors, programmers and software are supposed to survive if they don't receive royalties. The vast majority barely receive anything as it is.

I don't understand the attititude that music or software and the like should be free. A flat ISP charge would solve the problem and make the leeches who want free "stuff" pay.

[zarf]

It wouldn't matter what you or the others wanted to download if you simply pay a flat monthly or annual royalty fee that would be distrubuted to the industry.

You want a free version of Microsoft Office 2002 or Dragonball Z. or the latest tune fron Coldplay!?

Pay for it!!!!

What a concept!