Music Industry Proposes a Piracy Surcharge on ISPs RIAA: Still Crazy after All These Years, and now proposing a "piracy surcharge" for Internet users. How would it work?

"Griffin's idea is to collect a fee from internet service providers -- something like $5 per user per month -- and put it into a pool that would be used to compensate songwriters, performers, publishers and music labels. A collecting agency would divvy up the money according to artists' popularity on P2P sites, just as ASCAP and BMI pay songwriters for broadcasts and live performances of their work."

Keep dreaming, pal. Keep dreaming. If anything, the very mention of such an idea will anger people, inspiring them to download even more copyrighted material, just for the heck of it. Treating your customers like criminals has never been a winning strategy and it won't succeed this time.