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Mafiaa (RIAA) Victim # 1 – Internet Radio in Danger of Extinction

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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 rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters and instead adopting the ‘per play’ rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange (a digital music fee collection body created by the RIAA)…[The] math suggests that the royalty rate decision — for the performance alone, not even including composers’ royalties!

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The BIG DRM (digital rights management) mistake

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What are the lessons to learn from DRM?

  • 1. DRM hurts paying customers

    • Customers have paid for the texts/pictures/music/movies they purchased, and they expect to be able to use them as they’d like. You can argue that they’re not really buying the content, they’re just buying licenses for that content, but that argument, while technically legal, is facile and doesn’t take into account how real human beings think. When a normal person buys a song, he considers it his … after all, he just paid for it!

    Intelligent people can disagree about the economic impact of file sharing – it seems pretty clear to me that it actually encourages sales and awareness of movies, music, and other content – but that’s not what I’m talking about here.… Read More...

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