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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
2. There is no need to have a monitor in every computer. Any decent web server software already keeps a log of all attempts to access it and through what computer it was accessed. It would be relatively easy to monitor for downloads and report the number of unique downloads (not necessarily whose doing the downloading) to determine how the creators of works are to be paid.
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Assuming, of course, that everyone will behave themselves and only download through legitimate sites that keep logs and report their activity. Then there's the problem of who is going to gather all of that log data and correlate it into shares of the tax.
IMO, it's a nice idea, but is not very practical. What will probably happen is exactly what happens today in places that have tried to put in a similar tax. All of it goes to the big industry members, and the smaller/independent artists get nothing, regardless of what content is being used.