Re:Stupid. (Score 1)

The original article says ISPs would charge EVERY broadband customer $5 a month extra to be paid to the music industry. If somebody like me, for instance, who DOES do P2P downloads, but my P2P activity is limited to downloads of different linux distributions - I've probably downloaded 50 or 60 full ISO installs of a lot of different distros (anywhere from 400+MB on the low end to just under 5 GB each for the DVD-based ISOs, -I'm currently using Mandriva- is charged $5 a month even when I have downloaded NO copyrighted music or movies or whatever AT ALL, then THEY, the music industry, are plain and simple thieves and extortionists, and the ISPs are co-conspirators with them and accessories to that theft from the broadband customer. Each month they will steal an additional $5 from me and every other broadband user who does NOT illegally download copyrighted music. We don't owe them even one single penny. Also, as a church music director and organist, I find (from what little I listen to radio or hear coming from the car next mine at a stoplight) that the lyrics of a lot of today's "in" music or "rap" are VERY morally objectionable, devoid of morality, hateful, obscene, or worse. Music or rap that proposes or glorifies killing somebody, or music aimed at and popular with early teens promoting sexual activity, is NOT something I should be compelled to subsidize. The proposed $5 would IN FACT mean that I personally would be required to pay money to the music publishers, "artists" and composers who are making that "music", and that is the worst part of this. A church with a broadband connection would be subsidizing that filth from money put into the offering plate. That is simply unacceptable.