LEGAL DOWNLOADS AT 5 CENTS A SONG PROPOSED

Toronto’s Globe & Mail Newspaper reports that McGill University scholar and music industry vet Sandy Pearlman has proposed a plan that he thinks would help stop unauthorized music file sharing: put all recorded music on a search engine, and charge five cents a song.

Pearlman postulates that if songs are only 5 cents, "people would download exponentially more music," resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars (or more) for musicians and those who own the publishing rights to the songs.

As you can imagine the recording industry hates the idea…

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With free sign on read the Globe & Mail’s full article here.