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I don't know how many have been following, but netcasters are going to have to start paying royalties and it is difficult to see how most of them can afford it.
"The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) today upheld its earlier decision on fair royalty rates to be paid to musical artists and record labels for the use of their work on Internet radio."
I imagine that there will be many new subscription netcasts such as Rhapsody and Magnitude. I don't know how this will affect a terrestial radio station that also streams its program material. I also can't see how something like Shoutcast can remain.
I think AFTRA is being incredibly short sighted. Where I live the terrestial stations only broadcast a very narrow range of material. The net is where I learn about new music and then I do buy the CDs. I have sent Paypals to places in Africa and Europe that I have never heard of, and sure enough, a CD eventually appeared in the mail. I am sure in the near future I will just download it, but often they still want to download in MP3 and I am just not going to pay for anything in that format. When they start downloading in FLAC or OGG, then I will purchase with that method.
In any event, how I acquire the music, I will likely buy less if I discover less.
I am sure that AFTRA is great for someone like the Black Eyed Peas, but does nothing for Rayan or Neal n Nikki.
Incidently, did you see on YouTube Alanis Morrisette's sendup of My Hump by the Black Eyed Peas. It vividly shows how bankrupt talentwise someone like the Black Eyed Peas really are.
AFTRA, I am not happy.
http://www.playfuls.com/news_09_5844-Judges-Rule-No-Change-in-Music-Royalty-Rates-.html
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The net being what it is allowed me to find those oddball stations that seem to have been created just for my tastes. That stuff won't show up on a pay for radio station and I wouldn't I pay for an MP3 quality either. Every now and then I would let Station Ripper rip a few stations 24/7 for a few days. Then I'd take my time to go through what I downloaded an then, believe it or not, would actually go buy something I discovered. That which I didn't like would I deleted. Bottom line - this would actually put a dent in one of my avenues for discovering new music :(
marc g. - audiophile by day, music lover by night
I don't have a probelm with them paying for mthe rights on the music, what I wanna know is will they get free music like the big stations do ((promos?) After all, if fair is fair...
"I don't have a probelm with them paying for mthe rights on the music"Fair enough - if regular radio stations have to then internet radio wouldn't be any different.
"what I wanna know is will they get free music like the big stations do ((promos?) After all, if fair is fair..."
True, but in trying to make an apples to apples comparison....
Wouldn't an internet radio station have a lower operating cost than a traditional radio station? Anyone with a PC could do it. No building to rent, no antennas to buy or maintain, etc.. Just a thought...
marc g. - audiophile by day, music lover by night
Anyone with a PC can do it, but the bandwidth costs are massive - you can't get a big enough connection into your home to serve many people. I run a large internet site myself and I could do it from a linux server in my home easily if only I could get a big enough "pipe" to handle all the incoming requests. But since I can't, I have to house a server at a major data centre with massive bandwidth - costs many thousands per month, and I'm serving a lot less data to each customer than even a single 128k song.
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