Tuesday, 20. January 2009
Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 20, 2009 at 1:15:00 PM CET
Isle of Man wants legal P2P blanket
Tax haven the Isle of Man, with a population of around 80,000, wants to introduce a compulsory blanket licence for music downloads. Broadband ISP subscribers would pay a "nominal" compulsory tax, but be able to share music legally.
Surprisingly, the proposal has won approval from the chief executive of the BPI, Geoff Taylor.
"At the end of the day, we are not going to stop piracy, so let's embrace it," the Manx government's inward investment minister Ron Berry told the MidemNet conference this weekend.
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