Trent Reznor, frontman or Nine Inch Nails, has come out with the absurd idea that there should be an Internet tax to compensate for all the illegal music downloads that go on. It seems that everybody is trying to figure out a way to tackle filesharing and free music downloads.
Trent Reznor’s idea is that all users of the Internet be charged $5 by their ISP. This money would then somehow be redistributed to artists. This would be incredibly difficult to administer.
Also, it seems ridiculous to make the whole world pay for the small percentage of people who use filesharing services for dodgy music downloads. We thought Trent Reznor was a bastion for free music downloads, but we’re not so sure any more.
Reznor was unhappy with his experience with the Saul Williams album, which he made available for fans to pay what they thought the music download was worth. Reznor is thinking about doing the same for the next NIN album, but if he does so, he will likely offer a real CD as well as the music download.
Poor guy seems baffled by the world. Remember that this was the guy who told his fan to steal his music.
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