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Originally Posted by Alisa
The tax isn't a new paradigm. It was tried first with recordable media like cassette tapes. Small labels and artists got jack all out that deal. The big labels got the money. For them to be eliminated, you need a system that can't be gamed. I doubt you'll ever find one.
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The Internet is that system. On the Internet you can get a much more precise statistic on usage then you could measure with the previous Radio, CD sales, Royalties and other analog systems. The overall trends and usage statistics can be in fact thousands of times more precise than any TV/Radio audience measurement tools used with the measurement of old media. Which does in fact permit the very precise measurement of popularity and quality of much less popular content.
And also making systems that cannot be gamed on the Internet is possible. Just ask Google if they don't know when a Gmail account user is a real person of if it's a robot.