Internet Radio
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What does everyone think about this? http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/technology/radio_streaming/index.htm?postversion=2007031410[^] Is it simply a way for the record company executives to preserve their champagne and Ferrari lifestyle or are they genuinely concerned about artists royalties? What about the small emerging artists whos only exposure is internet radio? My experience of commercial radio (apart from the constant bs from the so called Dj and the adverts) is that you have to have made it already to get airplay - how does this ruling help anyone trying to get airplay? :|
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What does everyone think about this? http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/technology/radio_streaming/index.htm?postversion=2007031410[^] Is it simply a way for the record company executives to preserve their champagne and Ferrari lifestyle or are they genuinely concerned about artists royalties? What about the small emerging artists whos only exposure is internet radio? My experience of commercial radio (apart from the constant bs from the so called Dj and the adverts) is that you have to have made it already to get airplay - how does this ruling help anyone trying to get airplay? :|
Simple - pay the lawmakers to do what you want. Now they have more money so...
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What does everyone think about this? http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/technology/radio_streaming/index.htm?postversion=2007031410[^] Is it simply a way for the record company executives to preserve their champagne and Ferrari lifestyle or are they genuinely concerned about artists royalties? What about the small emerging artists whos only exposure is internet radio? My experience of commercial radio (apart from the constant bs from the so called Dj and the adverts) is that you have to have made it already to get airplay - how does this ruling help anyone trying to get airplay? :|
Steve_pqr wrote:
What does everyone think about this? http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/technology/radio\_streaming/index.htm?postversion=2007031410\[^\] Is it simply a way for the record company executives to preserve their champagne and Ferrari lifestyle or are they genuinely concerned about artists royalties? What about the small emerging artists whos only exposure is internet radio? My experience of commercial radio (apart from the constant bs from the so called Dj and the adverts) is that you have to have made it already to get airplay - how does this ruling help anyone trying to get airplay?
I think it is absolutley disgusting!
"The webcasters then were saying that they were going out of business, and I think instead what you've seen over the last five years has been an explosion of webcasters who have come online. You've seen a tremendous jump in both listenership and also in revenue," said Willem Dicke, spokesman for SoundExchange, a performance rights organizations that collects royalty payments for entertainers and provided testimony during the CRB hearings. "So no, I don't think that this is any kind of a death knell for the webcasting industry at all."
Of course there has been an explosion of business, just like there would have been an explosion of radio stations when radio was first introduced to the world. Its only recently that it has become feasable, before broadband it simply wasn't practical. There is no common sense reason why internet radio should be charged any different from traditional radio. This has only come about because everyone is fed up with the prepackaged endlessly promoted rubish. In the UK and I assume everywhere else the same songs are broadcast ad-infinitum on the radio before the single is released and there does not seem to be much variation in playlists between the different stations.
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Steve_pqr wrote:
What does everyone think about this? http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/technology/radio\_streaming/index.htm?postversion=2007031410\[^\] Is it simply a way for the record company executives to preserve their champagne and Ferrari lifestyle or are they genuinely concerned about artists royalties? What about the small emerging artists whos only exposure is internet radio? My experience of commercial radio (apart from the constant bs from the so called Dj and the adverts) is that you have to have made it already to get airplay - how does this ruling help anyone trying to get airplay?
I think it is absolutley disgusting!
"The webcasters then were saying that they were going out of business, and I think instead what you've seen over the last five years has been an explosion of webcasters who have come online. You've seen a tremendous jump in both listenership and also in revenue," said Willem Dicke, spokesman for SoundExchange, a performance rights organizations that collects royalty payments for entertainers and provided testimony during the CRB hearings. "So no, I don't think that this is any kind of a death knell for the webcasting industry at all."
Of course there has been an explosion of business, just like there would have been an explosion of radio stations when radio was first introduced to the world. Its only recently that it has become feasable, before broadband it simply wasn't practical. There is no common sense reason why internet radio should be charged any different from traditional radio. This has only come about because everyone is fed up with the prepackaged endlessly promoted rubish. In the UK and I assume everywhere else the same songs are broadcast ad-infinitum on the radio before the single is released and there does not seem to be much variation in playlists between the different stations.
What will end up happening is the larger more successful internet radio stations will be bought up by the record companies who will then turn them into clones of traditional radio stations playing endless drivel over and over again. The reason I listen to internet radio is so that I can listen to music I like by musicians I know and also to hear new music in the same genre which might just make me go out and buy a CD. I don't want to listen to the latest dirge from Justin Lumberjack 25 times a day, nor listen to some witless DJ spouting endlessly about his dog. I don't need to know that George Bush doesn't know where Iraq is on a map every 15 minutes and I don't have any need whatsover to know what the weather is doing in Witchita - I just want to listen to music. This is a perfect opportunity for the music business to make money and let us listen to music - stream the music over the internet, allow the listener to choose Pandora style, for free, forget about DRM simply cut each track short by a minute or overlay a jingle 2-3 times during each song to render them useless for recording. If I like a track by a band I haven't heard before I can go buy it from the record store knowing it will be $15 well spent. What I won't do is spend that $15 on a CD by a band whos music I've never heard.