"LONDON (Reuters) -- A music industry trade body launched on Monday electronic identity tags to keep tabs on Internet music sales in a bid to compensate musicians and song writers as more of their works become available online.
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The aim is to track each time a record label, online retailer or distributor such as Microsoft's MSN or Italian Internet service provider Tiscali sells a song in the form of a Web stream or download."

It sounds like it could be a good way to make sure artists are compensated properly, but something about it makes me a little nervous.

full story: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne...eut/index.html