Monetizing File-Sharing: Collective Licensing Good, ISP Tax Bad
Last week at SXSW, music industry veteran Jim Griffin broached the idea that file sharers pay a small fee through their ISPs in exchange for unlimited file sharing. There is a great deal to recommend an idea like this (as we've been saying since 2004), but there's a right way and a wrong way to go about it.
Lisa sez, "I've been working these past few weeks on this installation with Electric
Sheep artist Spot Draves. He and Second Life 3-D artist Somatika Xiao
(a.k.a. David Stumbaugh) have put together an incredible interactive art
exhibit in Second Life. We're having 
