I use Mercora’s offerings, and this all makes me nervous. I really hope what the RIAA does not go through, but even if it does, it’ll be alright. Mercora has the “M” app, which lets me get my music wirelessly through my smartphone. So I’ll be fine…

The music industry has been ripping off the people for a long time.How much is enough? Greed is thier main ingriedient.It cost around 2 cents to make a cd and its sold for twenty bucks or more? Am i correct over and over and over again. Thats where it should end. This whole situation would go away if the people would just wise up and say you know what i dont need to have this music and not buy it. if everyone did that and there was no money being exchanged the industry would either change and stop ripping off the public or go belly up which maybe they should anyway.i guess evertime someone reads a book in school or in the library a fee should be paid. Or maybe everytime i use the dishwasher i should pay a royalty fee. Just stop the arguing and greed dont buy the media dont turn on fm radio and see how that works. One more tidbit i wont be replacing any music i have with the next “new media” either. Yea pay you all again for the media i cant use because you changed again thats not going to happen anymore, What a racket.

A new broadcasting medium is fine, but not if it mainly plays artist “hits” and skirts the royalties.  It would be wonderful if the Internet radio stations promoted, with permission, work of people without access to the big studios or networks.

YouTube and similar sites are also blighted by material “ripped” from commercial sources.  Small clips incorporated with source acknowledgment into a substantially unique or original result might comply with public use standards, but some things are flat-out copies with no acknowledgement or permission.

Discount royalty standards for small Web broadcasters might be fine, but not if the station format is a mirror of the network “hits,” which would only fuel illicit digital copying of copywrited work.  Any site that plays mainly hits and whose visits soar above a certain threshold would have to pay royalties on par with the big guys.

Umm, ASCAP and BMI collect performance royalties on television and radio performance of music and pay the copyright owners.  It doesn’t work out great for the small guy, but your guest is wrong.

Promotion is great (as an excuse).

Free radio (or almost free) so you can promote your music.

Concert that hardly pay at all ( or even cost you money through tour support) so you can promote your songs.

Get your music on a TV show for next to nothing so it will promote your music.

Put your tunes on compilations for peanuts, it will good for promotion.(I have had offers from majors in the tens of dollars!!!)LOL to their face.

Free copies to DJs so they can promoye your stuff ( they get paid a bundle though).

Free downloads actually help you promote your music too!

By the time you have done all this promotion for nothing there is no were left to go!

Brilliant!

I have wanted one of these forever! THANKS for the great work

I can understand protecting intellectual property, but they need to think about this.  Quashing internet radio will only serve to shoot them in the foot by eliminating a major promotional medium.  When I listen to internet radio, I hear songs that I want to own, songs that I had long since forgotten about and I buy the MP3.  Isn’t that why radio over the airwaves has had “free” music for nearly a century?  As a promotional vehicle to sell albums?  They’re taking the “batten down the hatches” approach a little far and they’re going to choke themselves in the process.

Big media, because it is now a part of the military-industrial complex is allowed to do what ever it pleases. And of course it pleases to make more money. Big media wants and needs audiences to sustain itself. They can influence market size, and content, in many ways once they are free to “do business” as they see fit. They will find a way to bring internet radio into their domain and rape it for all it’s worth. It’s what they do now in the United States of Everything.
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