This monday I wrote about the stupid plan that the NVPI an SENA came up with, to get money from podcasters, in order to compensate the music mafia in Holland. In a suprise move they decided to not do this as yet. For now. Apparantly they didn’t had the time to pass this tax law through the proper channels. This is the same group of people that got filthy rich from pimping artists in Holland and now they decided to get more money from people that just use their freedom of speech to do some podcasting and use some music in the making of it. It is also the same group that came up with the brilliant plan to put some tax on MP3 players to compentsate the music industry. Instead they should focus on how to cope with the fact that the Internet completely wiped the old business models of the table and invent new ways of making money. Apple for one, has understood what people want. Their iTunes store is running like crazy.
When will they learn?