Music Industry Continues To Shoot Self In Foot; Forces Pandora To Block Non-US Listeners
from the nice-work dept
It's really depressing to watch the recording industry so consistently shoot itself in the foot, focusing on capturing every immediate dollar, rather than recognizing the ability of using music as free promotion to build up the size of their market. The latest case is that Pandora.com, a popular streaming music recommendation service (which is already facing some challenges due to the new webcaster rates) is being forced to block all non-US users of its service. This is because the recording industry wants Pandora to sign separate licensing deals in every country where it has listeners -- a nearly impossible task. Anyone who's used Pandora for more than about five minutes realizes what a great service it is for the entire recording industry. It really does a good job of recommending new music to listeners -- the type of new music that fits in with what they like, and that they're much more likely to support with money. However, rather than recognizing the numerous ways that Pandora can grow their overall market, the recording industry has to shut it down since it won't pay them even more than they're already being paid. This harms the recording industry in numerous ways, and it's amazing they haven't figured that out yet.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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That and friends with similar tastes is the only I get to know of new music I like, but these days it's mainly Pandora.
Am I the only person who remembers the days of pluggers, back when music companies pestered and even bribed DJ's to get their products in front of customers via radio?
This really is corporate suicide.
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Dude!
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Proxy
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Digg
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Still working in Italy...
I will keep you posted when they actually cut me out.
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Stupid *and* ignorant
Let's just declare the internet an anarchist nation and be done with it, shall we? It's silly to (try to) differentiate between internet users based on geographic location.
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music industry lags behind must find 9thxchange
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eMusic.com
Stage.fm
Hell despite the flak it gets, MySpace too is an excellent source of new music.
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Re: Stupid *and* ignorant
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Re: Dude!
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Don't Just Complain
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The RIAA Must Be Stopped
This site makes it easy to find out if an artist is a member: http://www.riaaradar.com/
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same
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Move the servers, already
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Proxy
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So what's next?
They are constantly lobbying to get custom made laws and have managed to influence the government to put anti-piracy pressure on countries that don't acknowledge/enforce US copyright laws.
I suppose the next thing will be a law that states that any indie/garage/small time bands will have to pay royalties to the RIAA for the previlage to create/play their own original music. "So what if you haven't played anything larger then a high school talent show. F*ck you pay us. The songs you played were your orginal creations? F*ck you pay us."
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Stupidity
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Pandora
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Re: music industry lags behind must find 9thxchang
Ooohhh, sorry. Carpet-bombing a marketoid piece in the middle of a tech weenie discussion thread is worth about neg1,000,000,000 to your score... you don't even win the crappy home game. In fact, your score is low enough you owe us the crappy home game. Thanks for playing, though, do come again.
That said, I do actually want to take issue with one particular element of your advertisement:
Or, rather, several issues at once. The fact of the matter is, I can resell CD's and DVD's, and the market for used material is doing quite well. One might even say "thriving". And I see no reason for an author/director/singer/producer/whathaveyou to make *ahem* "lifetime royalties on exchanges between consumers" off of this business. Sony makes no further profit should I resell my DVD player. HP makes no further profit should I resell my computer. In fact, neither does Microsoft even though my copy of Windows goes along with the machine. Oh, noes!
And there is no causitive chain of events that you can show to substantiate your statement that offering such lifetime royalties will have any effect on the levels of piracy. In fact, I'd much more expect a negative correlation there than a positive one.
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Korea
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meh? That's actually the problem. They are grown. Old...
It's long past time for them to die.
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Tree of liberty etc etc
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Decaffeinated coffee is kinda like kissing your sister.
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Dinosaurs
http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2007/04/fun_with_the_di.html
but to be honest, I'm amazed how Pandora get away with playing all those tracks into my cache.
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Streaming Radio based outside US
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Pandora Told To Shut Down ...???
And so here it begins... I am stunned at the blatant ignorance of such a "communist" commandment now leveled against Pandora in a supposedly free society. This is not about MUSIC, this is not about QUALITY, this is not about LEVEL PLAYING fields for ALL in MUSIC as was promised to ALL of us by our US Congress.
THIS IS ABOUT POWER AND GREED!!!
The Majority of our "leaders" in CONGRESS have turned their backs on the honest, fair, tax paying small business owners trying to survive in the "music" industry.
What has happened to America????
Clueless non-leadership being led by the choker leash by Big Label Money.
THIS IS ABOUT POWER CONTROL AND GREED!!!
Obviously, they are begging here for a massive RIAA boycott, and a "peoples" revolution to rise up and make noise against all of this.... WHY?
Why Why Why? WHAT's THE BIG PICTURE here...
Music doesn't really matter here to "RIAA=SoundExchange"... Music is the smoke screen and mirrors...
THIS IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF WHAT THEY REALLY WANT!
Tim,
Hang in there, You and PANDORA obviously have all of OUR support in this battle.
Gene
~ MUSIC INDIES UNITE! ~ Save Indie Internet Radio! ~
CALL CONGRESS and LET THEM HEAR OUR VOICE!~
http://www.myspace.com/gene_leone_mix
http://blog.myspace.com/gene_leone_mix
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Don't moan, mobilize!
And just for those of you who might want to take action, there is a "hotline" run by the RIAA/MPAA for reporting violations. The phone number is 800-223-2328 (toll free). I am proposing a sort of "denial of service attack". Flood this number with your complaints instead.
If something isn't done, I'm sure I will be getting a call from them one of these days telling me how much I owe for playing covers of other peoples songs on my web site.
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Re: Stupid *and* ignorant
Being a vet Ive seen chaos, and trust me, some pony-tailed pansy sitting in mommies basement in front of his PC is ill-prepared for *real* chaos. This despite the current romantisism of "chaos" that the lunatic left and it media minions currently portray on the daily newscast. To believe different is plain ignorant and history is my proof. Do you have any proof that chaos works or is in any way shape or form good for civilization? Thought not.
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The ASCAP Experimental License Agreement for Webcasters also contains a clause that specifically prohibits licensed services from transmitting music programming outside of the United States and its territories.
While ASCAP doesn't enforce its license agreements to the same degree as say, Phonographic Performance Limited, that does not give services permission to violate the terms.
Due diligence is the backbone of a legitimate business.
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Dumb Greedy Bastards
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Record Labels don't work when free promotion is su
1. Studio Time = $$$
2. Marketing = $$$
3. Make the CDS = $$$
Now, musicians easily do the following:
1. Record Music on their computers
2. Market their own music via the net and touring
3. Cds(tangible audio products) are dead
So, the only thing we need a record label for is to front the money for huge arena rock tours, with huge catering bills....rock on, dude, get out the lighters (ohhh wait it is cell phones now)
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Hi Mates!!!
These guys at RIAA are the real pirates - corporate pirates!
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Wake Up human kind... before become to late...
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Call it DSAMO. Deal direct with the artist. Screw the RIAA. Up with DSAMO !!!!!!!
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Re: Streaming Radio based outside US
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Good move by RIAA
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Use the crap patent system to shut down the RIAA?
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I'm sure that one of the many Russian Mp3 sites, and I am aware of over 80 thanks to this list: www.squidoo.com/russianmp3sites/
will step into the breach and start providing an equivalent service with direct links to their much cheaper download services. And RIAA members will be even worse off than before.
The biggest wonder is that the RIAA haven't run out of feet to shoot themselves in...
Nick
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The music companies should be encouraging Pandora. The idiots.
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www.globalpandora.com for outside Amerika
I think you still have alternative named www.globalpandora.com who stream musik to Germany. Pandora is the same but for Amerika only.
Regarts
Hans
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Easy Cure for Pandora IP Block
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Unblock Everything
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rent a car Beograd
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Here`s a video on how to do it for HULU:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAaUvEfGg1k
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