A new solution for the age-old music downloading problem?

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I know the for/against music download debate has been done to death, but what do you think?

From today's Independent
Music industry to tax downloaders

£30 'licence fee' set to revolutionise illegal file-sharing

By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent
Thursday, 24 July 2008

Internet users could face an annual charge of up to £30 to download music, under plans to be unveiled today that aim to tackle illegal file-sharing.


Ministers are backing proposals that would enable millions of broadband users to pay an annual levy which would allow them to copy as much – previously illegal – music from the internet as they wanted. The money raised would be channelled back to the rights-holders, with artists responsible for the most popular songs receiving a bigger slice of the cash. (continued here)

I used download loads of music illegally in my late teens at the height of the P2P craze around 2000, but now I tend to try and buy everything (notwithstanding bootlegs etc). I'd be in favour of paying £30 for unlimited music downloads. iTunes would be majorly pissed off though.