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Hillary Rosen Has Lost Her Mind From CNET: RIAA: ISPs should pay for music swapping:
A top music industry representative [Hillary Rosen, RIAA] said Saturday that telecommunications companies and Internet service providers will be asked to pay up for giving their customers access to free song-swapping sites.
"Let's face it. They [the ISPs] know there's a lot of demand for broadband simply because of the availability (of file-sharing)," Rosen said.
Rosen suggested one possible scenario for recouping lost sales from online piracy would be to impose a type of fee on ISPs that could be passed on to their customers who frequent these file-swapping services.
Yeah, right Hillary. The entire world revolves around your dying industry. more...
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