Is there no end to the stupidity of these people?

From Portfolio.com:

"Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Warner Music Group has tapped industry veteran Jim Griffin to spearhead a controversial plan to bundle a monthly fee into consumers' internet-service bills for unlimited access to music.

The plan—the boldest move yet to keep the wounded entertainment industry giants afloat—is simple: Consumers will pay a monthly fee, bundled into an internet-service bill in exchange for unfettered access to a database of all known music."

     I particularly enjoyed this jewel:

"Griffin says he hopes to move beyond the years of acrimonious record-industry litigation against illegal file-swappers, college students in particular."

Extortion, in the form of a compulsory tax, is so much less acrimonious, right?

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