Recording Industry Realizes People Aren't Happy About Webcasting Rates
from the how's-this? dept
Sensing that people aren't thrilled with the new webcasting rates that were put in place, the recording industry today tried to offer something of a compromise for small webcasters, though the solution still has plenty of problems. Basically, this only fixes a very small part of the problem and will still make life difficult for plenty of webcasters (not to mention it only lasts for few years before we have to go through the whole asinine process again). However, the recording industry is probably hoping that this "compromise" is enough to scare off politicians who are looking to smack down the rates.
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friggin idiots...
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It's sorta like the Mafia thug Vinny giving you an extra 24 hours before he breaks your legs. And, if he's in a really good mood, he'll only break one!
WOW! WHAT A NICE GUY! ;-)
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I was gonna buy the new Linkin Park CD after hearing some of the material off of it, but their continued stupidity has just lost them a sale.
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So... fuck em.
There's less [no] regulations to webcasts than radio, and it's a whole lot easier to set them up. Webcasts are exponentially multiplying as are their listeners.
I don't see how they can hope to regulate webcasting when webcasts overall are much much larger than filesharing... you know? The thing used across several networks with terabytes of data across each one, most of the data being illegaly (by one standard or another) shared or acquired across millions of users? Yeah that. Good luck RIAA. I'd wish you the best, but I really don't.
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What's of utmost importance is that society's individuals and the politicians (which they voted for) have let corporations take control of the situation.
This is another example of profits-first policy on the run.
It's shameful, but the shame lies with society for accepting the status quo for so long.
People take time to write in blogs and forums, but how many write to politicians?
Make a pledge today to write to one politician this month.
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Kill the RIAA
Pays artists 60% like they deserve instead of the RIAAs ridiculous 3-8%. Allows user to listen and download music from bands they like for free, and you support bands you like in increments of $10 (from what I understand) for some free gear. Once the band reaches their goal of $50,000 they it gets spent on the best recording studios and best producers, and the people who 'invested' in the band previously get a free CD and a portion of their profits from CD sales.
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The difference...
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p2p
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What I never understood...
That's like going to the grocery store and having the checker tell you that Milk is $.50 a gallon more, retroactively to last year, and now you have to pay the difference.
It makes no sense.
EtG
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Again, not sure where I read this, so use as fact at your own risk.
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