No one likes to pay for music-- or much else article--Emily George

The article "No one likes to pay for music-- or much else" by Andrew Potter, discusses how record industries are upset due to the "free downloads" that the Internet is providing. The record industries are losing profit because the Internet provides music and other forms of media to be downloaded for free. This article also provides an out so that the consumers and the producers are happy. The proposition is to use the McGuinness's "tax-and-distribute" model which makes the consumer pay a basic Internet tax that is collected by the Internet Service Providers (ISP) and in return the ISP's would pay the fees to the Copyright Board. So, the consumers get access to all the media downloads and the producers are still making a profit from the media that they are creating.
I feel that the McGuinness's "tax-and-distribute" model is a fair and ethical for the consumers to get the media that they want to download, and the record industries to receive their profits. The media that the record industries produce obviously cost large sums of money, so how can we as consumers expect them to just give us their products.
We live in a society that is consumer-based. It shouldn't come as a shock to individuals that there is going to be a charge to download different forms of media. The producers create their products not to give it away and feel good about themselves, they use their time and resources to produce products that we as the consumers can purchase. It is only fair and "ethical" if you will, for the media industries to receive profit for their work.