[Charbax]

Originally Posted by Donnageddon

Oh... huh... uh... WTF?

Yup, this is the solution to online piracy. Musicians, film makers, writers, journalists, bloggers all these people are going to be paid through the Obama art tax.

About $5 per month per person in average based on personal fortune and income can pay for all of it.

Then you pay the artists based on their popularity and the rated quality of their works. That's what you can use computer and Internet technologies to measure and monitor. You can measure traffic, popularity using logging at the multimedia player software or text viewer end (voluntary logging from the web browser), ISPs and the Government already know which content is accessed how much on the Internet. But those statistics can be improved and accuracy improved. Any attempt at gaming the system can also cleverly be prevented through voluntary authentication of all the users.

Originally Posted by Charbax

Posted at http://torrentfreak.com/former-emi-b...comment-530906

The Obama arts tax for the USA for example, at an average of about $5 per person, amounts to about $20 billion per year. That’s already plenty more than all artists are getting in the USA each year combined. It would amount to about 0,14% of the US Gross Domestic Product. $20 billion out of $13,84 trillion.

Do the same type of taxing in Europe and other rich countries, in each country based on the average income per person and you’ve got close to $100 billion for all the artists and for financing all the works of art of the world each year. That is including the financing whatever big movie productions and any other expensive artistic projects.

$100 billion per year can pay for close to 3.5 million artists full time salaries based on the USA average personal income.

Basically it kind of means that about 1 person in 1000 with the most talent and the most creative ambition could be a full time paid artist if they want.

But consider also that you could have lots and lots of simply part time artists as well instead of only full time artists. Such as some casual bloggers and video-bloggers, they could get just payments according to their creativity and they can still also have another job as well.

Those $100 billion from the art tax, doesn’t have to be the whole art industry as well. The industry can still sell books, ebooks, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, cinema tickets, concert tickets and plenty more as usual as well on top of that for the established popular artists to enjoy even more income and for them to continue to also use as many private funds as they ant to continue to finance their expensive artistic creations.