Music Exec: ISPs Must Pay Up for Music-Swapping
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“We will hold ISPs more accountable,” said Hillary Rosen, chairman and CEO the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) (RIAA), in her keynote speech at the Midem music conference on the French Riviera.
“Let’s face it. They know there’s a lot of demand for broadband simply because of the availability (of file-sharing),” Rosen said.
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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.
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Rosen’s other suggestions for fighting online piracy were more conciliatory.