Posts Tagged ‘riaa’
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
SoundExchange head Jon Simson is the last person on the planet we expected to hear talking about how great Pandora’s streaming radio service is. After all, his organization proposed the very same royalty rates enacted by the US Copyright Royalty Board that threaten to put Pandora out of business. [MORE]
Tags: copyright, fees, music, online, pandora, radio, riaa, soundexchange, stream
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
If you’re a fan of new music and easily offended by corporate thuggishness, you may not want to read my colleague Peter Whoriskey’s story from Saturday’s paper about the possible demise of the Pandora Web-radio service. [MORE]
Tags: download, music, pandora, radio, riaa, streaming
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Free music mixtape service Muxtape has temporarily been shut down due to pressure from the RIAA. [MORE]
Tags: download, mixtape, music, muxtape, riaa
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Recording industry and motion picture lobbyists are renewing their push to convince broadband providers to monitor customers and detect copyright infringements, claiming the concept is working abroad and should be adopted in the United States. [MORE]
Tags: broadband, copyright, download, mpaa, music, riaa
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Pandora made a bold political statement today, saying they’d likely shut down rather than continue to pay exorbitant fees to play music to listeners of its massively popular service. [MORE]
Tags: fees, music, online, pandora, radio, riaa, streaming
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
We’ve been discussing the plight of Internet radio for some time, as the Copyright Royalty Board imposed royalties that industry observers predicted would prove lethal to the nascent industry. [MORE]
Tags: copyright, internet, music, pandora, radio, riaa, royalties, streaming
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
In the ongoing battle with the MPAA and RIAA, there seems to be an ongoing argument about who is to blame. If you leave a $20 bill on the sidewalk, can you report it stolen when someone takes it? Of course you can, but will you be taken seriously by the authorities? [MORE]
Tags: audio, mpaa, music, riaa, stealing, streaming
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