Fred von Lohmann, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, proposes a flat-fee solution to the p2p problem in an article at the Daily Princetonian.
Basically, what’ he’s proposing is to introduce a flat monthly surcharge to ISP access, and distribute that fee between the record companies and the artists. The current round of lawsuits and mayhem only benefits the RIAA, not the artists who seem to have been forgotten as usual.
For those of you that don’t know, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is a membership-supported nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties and free expression in the digital world.