Yes.
How do you determine which artists and what percentage they get of that, and so forth, because the first thing I'm going to get is a request for an explanation? How do you even know who has been pirated more than others and how it's divided up?
If you're saying on the one hand that this is a critical part of how to stabilize artists' lifestyles and creativity right now, my concern with that being seen as a solution is what happened in the past with the effort to tax memory cards. There are several problems with that, but the most important one is that they diminished in value quite significantly. You have to take into account the depreciation that happens in the marketplace with any device subject to the remuneration of whatever you want to call it, a tax, a levy, a fee, or whatever you're getting back. You're making it either dependent upon a fixed fee at a particular date in time, or you're always trying to come up with the $40 million.
How do you get to the $40 million? How does it affect local artists, and how is it determined? I would imagine that some artists are getting ripped off more than others, depending on their popularity.
Could you shed some light on that? I'd appreciate it.