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Griffin threw out the idea of a $5/month tax (which would be added to people’s ISP bill), generating $20 billion/year in revenues. The tax won’t be mandatory, he implies. And he also said that it isn’t really a “tax”: “we have no such interest in government running this or having any part of it.” Users who are paying the tax will be able to download music from the Internet legally, through all the normal channels (BitTorrent, other P2P networks, etc.). The core of the plan is a covenant not to sue anyone who pays the fee. Griffin touched on this in the article, saying ISPs will want to “discharge their risk” around file sharing that occurs over their networks.Source: Tech Crunch

Basically you will add five dollars a month to your online bill to avoid ever being sued. Clearly this is only benefiting record labels because there is no way they can catch most people stealing music. This is dangerous territory because its starts at 5 and next thing you know other labels want it to go up and then the movie industry gets involved.