Someone else has a clue

No, it’s not a Music label. This time it’s Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch who weighs in on the ‘Music Tax‘ concept.

 ”Forcing people to buy music whether they want to or not is not a solution to this problem. The incentives created by such a system are perverse - guaranteed revenue and guaranteed profits will remove any incentive to innovate and serve niche markets. It will be the death of music.

Asking the government to prop up a dying industry is always (always) a bad idea. In this case, it is a monumentally stupid, dangerous, and bad idea.”

So yet another knowledgable person making a logical argument against an illogical idea. This will be the final post on the subject since I think the point has been made. Muppets.

You can read the full article here.