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Originally Posted by P_Funk
[What kind of lobby would want to effectively destroy the internet? You been keeping up with all the lawsuits in every country trying to kill P2P or music 'theft' etc... The internet is a wild west of the modern world. They gots to get a hold on this one bucko, a'fore these savages think they actually got somethin' goin' on. There are lots of interests that don't much like the internet.
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I haven't heard the music industry calling for a tax on the internet. I think the law suits are about retaining the money which they are rightfully entitled to. The music companies invested the money and deserve the fruit of what they sowed. If P2P and napster types were on the high seas it would be piracy and then gov'ts would be directly involved in removing that threat. Bringing a lawsuit uses gov't as an arbritator with current law and precidant as the paridigm.
No lobby to increase taxes involved in those cases.