am I going to be getting charged this 'license fee' even though I only download legally from eMusic??

Seems a bit unfair if I do!

will my housemates who download music illegally on our broadband, which is in my name, get me into trouble??? I wouldn't mind by the quality of the music is a fucking joke. I found one of them downloading a Bush album FFS.

with it, the news just mentioned some vauge stuff about it last night and didn't say very much.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/07/bpi_v_isps_whos_won_on_music_p.html

The 'iPod Tax' doesn't seem to be really happening, and they haven't quite worked out what to do with people who ignore the letters... Remove their internet? Ban them from all ISPs?

THe worst that could happen would be getting cut off from your ISP as it would be far too difficult to create a criminal case against small time file-sharers and prove they actually downloaded the content and didn't get their wifi hacked.

home-taping can now save music! The irony.

The ISP's can't penalise you for doing something illegal until they've proved it in court. All it will take is someone who downloads lots of 100% legal music to get the letters and cut off and they'll be a shit storm.

i download albums and buy what i want personally from bands at shows. seems fair.

i dont want to give my money to Zavvi or wherever.

and i dont feel guilty at all downloading music when the artist are more business than 'art'.

last night i downloaded the little wings album. i am seriously meant to believe that some of this supposed £30 a year would make it's way back to K records?

Anyway. Surely they can't trace people that download using mediafire / megaupload? i can maybe understand them tracing file sharing things like limewire..., but blogs and stuff - that can't be hit, can it?

Are you not allowed a back up file or something? Or is that only if you actually own a hard copy?

"MUSIC IS TOO EXPENSIVE!!!!!!"

for him to rip? nothing. ok so i can understand sharing leaks is pretty out of order, but honestly where do you draw the line?? psh

That's the film industry's idea of combating downloads, trying to perpetuate some kind of ridiculous name calling culture... anyone else driven nuts by this? It's so misdirected and pathetic!

so it's no skin off my back really.

but i don't really understand how 'workable' this is, and the idea of ISPs keeping tabs on what sites you're viewing, what programmes you're running, and what files you're downloading and uploading seems a bit invasive.

all they do is fuck people over anyway

will people who only use the internet to upload their own music and only download things from friends that they wrote have to pay a "licence fee"?

I can't help feeling that a lot of this is payback for the days when the likes of HMV
were charging 16.99 for non-chart albums.

If any good comes out of this it may be that the majors exercise a little more quality control, I just hope that the indies don't take too much of a hit in the meantime.

it's unreal.

downloading has done wonders for the industry. dizzee has had a number one single for four/five weeks almost purely legal downloads.

people always forget that people were taping and distributing music illegally long before downloading.

the record labels need to man up and think of ways to get people to legally download music, not just try and stop people from downloading full stop.

ISPs won't threaten customers with a stoppage of their account, they'd all lose far too much business in a very tough market.

was the quote back in the day. However I am sure I'm not alone in having taped an album off a mate I then proceeded to buy a vinyl copy and subsequently bought later albums aswell - sales that would never have been made had i not been introduced to the act "illegally".
It's no different now - if something is downloaded from a file sharing site then a lot of people assuming they like it will go on to purchase the CD. The focus has shifted so that the customer and not the industry holds the upper hand
Lets not forget the price of CD's before they became generally available online . HMV and co had no problem ripping off punters for years by charging between £12 and £15 for releases which proves the contempt they have for music lovers. These large companies have never cared about what the consumer wants only how they can increase their profit margins and in my opinion this will never change.

I prefer to get a higher percentage of moeny to the band by going to gigs and buying stuff there.

ISP's are against this as they are in a battle for customers but are compromising to meet the record labels half way.

It's going to be near impossible to police and the ISP's don't want to put customers off anyway.

I don't think there is anything to worry about