It seems Warner exec Jim Griffin was unprepared for the rancor of the Interwebs, because he’s backpedaling on a proposal to fabricate a blanket fee in behalf of ISPs on music. All of that was just part of a “high-powered chit-chat,” says Griffin in a statement, and “It would be dismal if a original and plenteous meeting were sidetracked by a rush to judgment with regard to what was simply my own illustrative example of individual of profuse concepts I have in this gap.”

Yes, indeed — it’d be luckless if a conference of a plaits-brained scheme with no layout concerning implementation or investment from any of the stakeholders were derailed by the in point of fact that it was a skin of one's teeth-brained scheme with no plan for implementation or investment from any of the stakeholders.

See some excellent coverage and dissection from CNet word.com’s Greg Sandoval.

And as Sandoval notes, “What happens is that people hear the tete-…-tete “tax” and objective analysis goes out the window. People scold and vilify. effectively comes the torches and pitchforks.” That lack of objectivity is what frustrated me yesterday, even without being a specialist on the legal details

Of course, I wrangle with Griffin about what happens to the “vital conversation” when people bring on out the pitchforks. He says people expend the possibility to “mark a diversification of raw concepts without prejudice.” I say they lose the moment to consider straight how unlit of touch with reality his proposition is.

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