Warner Music Group is reportedly considering a plan to have Internet service providers add $5 a month to subscribers' bills for unlimited access to music on the Web. Full Article here.

Now here is a cure to the problem. Have everyone pay, and a totally strapped ISP industry collect and pay for something the media industry cannot control on their own. Lets see with the names like TimeWarner Cable, Comcast, Roadrunner, Cox and Charter holding the lions share of cable networks.

In america the adsl based ISP find it nearly impossible to compete with cable. This due to the amount of bandwidth cable companies provide, this is primarily due to the fact that ADSL simply will not support this type of bandwidth. Now it seems they really want to collect a tax from each of their clients to pay for those who listen to music on the web.

The handful of small ISP's left would simply be driven again by telling the small number of users left they will have to tax them $5.00 so the Music Industry gets their part of the pie. Of course this means nothing to the Cable Companies who already dominate the industry. Seems to me they already make enough money off their user base, without taxing their client base to some 20 billion dollars more.

I currently pay $180 per month for cable TV and internet. If this is typical and 5.00 relates to 20 billion. It does not take a math major to see how big this pie really is.

Does anyone even remember cable TV that was not loaded with commericals? When it is the only game in town, I am sorry but this is nothing more than a monopoly. One which is now seeking to add another $5.00 to the bill.