(Google does not run a tracker? Maybe I misunderstand you, but have you heard of spiders and robots? The principle of thing seems the same to me. They search the web and serve up the results.) Re how should creative people be paid? We live in a tech age. It's feasible to census what people are using / enjoying. A tiny tax on the products necessary to do the enjoying -- the mp3 players, the TVs, computers, headphones, printers, paper, etc. -- could then be distributed among the creators proportional to how much use their creations get. Certainly, it wouldn't be a perfect correspondence, but, guess what?, it's even less perfect now. And this system would *reward* the artists when their art was shared, as it should be. The only people who would lose by it would be the current middlemen parasitizing the creative people. And they'd never be so dishonest as to use all their ill-gotten gains to keep their bloodsucking system going, would they? (Angry? Me? What gives you that idea? I do have a dog in this race since I write science fiction.)