Comments on: Hold on, Pandora didn’t save all Internet radio

By: John

John — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:49:19 +0000

How does this affect Non-profit webcasters such as churches? Is there an exemption?

By: ThePimpOfSound

ThePimpOfSound — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:33:45 +0000

I was intentionally being colloquial (”You did good, kid.”), but thanks.

By: metalistic

metalistic — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:29:54 +0000

The song remains the same.

Guess what? Radio IO did the same thing back in 2002, by negotiating a special back room deal for themselves and a few others. Many webcasters have gone dark since then. Fortunately, Live365 came to the rescue with a reasonable pricing structure that ensured royalty payments were made and the smaller webcasters could still operate. However, as long as RIAA calls the shots, it will never change, proven with this new round of agreements, it is getting much worse.

It's a great David Vs. Goliath story, that seems to still be dragging on, almost eight years later.

By: Zek

Zek — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:26:44 +0000

“Done well” NOT “Done good”.

By: gregbowen

gregbowen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:53:40 +0000

Grooveshark is a totally awesome music service – but more recently I have discovered music blogs – these are people that care about genres and spend tons of time finding great content.

By: wayneqsr

wayneqsr — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:28:14 +0000

The thing is, if I compose and perform my own music, and broadcast it over the Internet from my own website without charge or airing any advertising whatsoever, I would have to pay SoundExchange $25,000 for the privilege of doing so, according to their demands. This is just plain stupid. If some lawyer wants to take them on for violating free speech, you have my full support.