Reply #25: And the percentage of young people who download is a majority [View All]

[Ignacio Upton]

Even the RIAA acknowledges that a majority of students get music for free in some form. It's now the norm to find teenagers with thousands of songs on their ipod. Realistically, how many teenagers had 1000's on songs in their music collection ten years ago when CD's and dying cassettes were the only ways of acquiring music? If they want to make money off it, then they should enter into a licensing agreement with ISP's and universities, so that consumers pay a monthly fee to who ever provides them with internet access in exchange for the right to file share music. In return, this money would add up to a pool, and the pool of money would be divvied up among the most downloaded artists. You could have ASCAP or BMI collect the money from the ISP's and universities to distribute.