She's GOT to be Kidding.

Everyone who got broadband to game, raise your hands. Now put them down, because Hillary Rosen of the RIAA says we don't exist, because everyone who gets broadband does it for filesharing.

So according to this article on Yahoo news, Hillary Rosen gave the keynote at the Midem music conference in Cannes. That's the French Riviera, the same place where they have the movie competition. She wants ISPs to pay a fee that would be passed on to consumers because we absolutely ALL must be stealing from the mouths of young, hard-working, starving artists like the Rolling Stones, Metallica, Eminem and Dr. Dre.

What we have here is yet another tax given to the RIAA in a case where the crimes of the few are paid for by the money of the many. Or did you not know that we already pay a tax on CD-R's to "counter the cost of piracy."

If I'm going to get charged for something I don't do, you're damned sure I'm going ro reap the benefits of what you want to charge me for.

It absolutely stuns me that the music industry, and specifically well-educated people like Ms. Rosen can be so horribly out of touch with reality on something like this.

After all, we don't use broadband to play games, transfer large files full of web design pages and proposals, or to do work from home through a VPN. We are all thievses. Dirty, filthy thievses steals our Precious, yesss...mean, nasty hobbitses downloads our music, yesssss *gollum* *gollum* we'll finish them! we'll finish them allll precious.