Last week, Warner Music Group strategist Jim Griffin began traveling the country proposing an alternative to illegal file sharing. Griffin is pitching a "'voluntary blanket licensing' for online access to music" at major educational powerhouses, such as MIT, Columbia, and UC Berkley. The proposal calls for a fee to be added to tuition, which would act as a license for all media files downloaded or uploaded by the students. The fee money would then go to a registered non-profit called Choruss, which would divide up the profits between record labels. Critics of the “tax” say there is no real way to regulate and track which record label should get what percentage of the fee, not to mention the fact that there are no provisions for the movie studios who would invariably also have their products downloaded.

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