Category: Random
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Mafiaa (RIAA) Victim # 1 – Internet Radio in Danger of Extinction
A little background first….. Kurt Hanson’s Radio Internet Newsletter has an analysis of the new royalty rates for Internet Radio announced by the US Copyright Office. The decision is likely to put most internet radio stations out of business by making the cost of broadcasting much higher than revenues. Quote: “The Copyright Royalty Board is…
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The Return of the Vinyl Album
However, I’m betting this is beginning to exclude the EDM genre, where waves of DJs (just from eye-witness accounts of the transition the past 4-5 yrs) are moving over to the more affordable formats of .wav and .mp3, purchased primarily on EDM download sites. It’s Economics 101. However the brief reference to DRM certainly applies.…