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Originally Posted by lagavulin16  You're talking about parking tickets, and I think it's one of the more reasonable suggestions made here.
Others here want people facing hard jail time and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. |
this idea has been suggested for weeks in this thread.
parking tickets for piracy would work. small enough to be fair but large enough to make buying music a better buy.
a cottage industry of collection agencies would take on the the collections just like they do with debt now - or the fines could be tacked onto your ISP bill. you can always elect to fight it too.
people will hate having to deal with it - it will be just enough of an annoyance to say the hell with it - I'll spend the damn 99 cents...
two things will happen
1) piracy will probably drop in half almost over night
2) total music consumption will drop rapidly as well - as a result the paid to piracy ratio may come to something like 70% paid within a year...
once that happens we can get a true sense of the marketplace and develop the best possible new models to meet the demands of PAYING CUSTOMERS.
that's a hell of lot better than 95% pirated now...