Reply #40: The problem I see with that proposal

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is that you have no way to ensure that people don't avoid the $5-$10 fee and go elsewhere.

Most of the legal music downloading services aren't very expensive even now, but people still prefer the p2p free stuff.

You'd have to really crack down - and to do that, you'd end up hurting a lot of people who haven't really done much of anything wrong.