Otto Matta Posted June 22, 2002 Share Posted June 22, 2002 I'm not too sad to see Audiogalaxy go since I never used it, but I'm unnerved by the new regulations requiring even online radio to pay royalties to artists. This has caused my favorite online radio to go down - SomaFM. They had the best ambient and IDM selection, not to mention a lot of other great stations. They claim they would've had to pay $500 a day in royalties alone, which no indie radio station is going to be able to afford. Which means that only giants with lots of money but with questionable tastes aimed at the more mainstream listener are going to be able to stay on the air. Either that or we're going to have to pay fees to listen to the damn radio. I understand that artists deserve a cut, but the music industry is very quickly undermining what would be a fruitful expansion and broadening of the industry itself. Sounds a little fascist in my opinion. Your thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pringles Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 Very sad if it comes to shutting down I'm going to miss philosomatika and chillambience the most. Wouldnt surprise me if some of the radio stations went underground, advertising through IRC and other non-obvious ways, switching servers regularly and other such warezy ways http://www.saveinternetradio.org/ has details of whats going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --==MileS==-- Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 The regulators and content industries are shooting themselves in the foot since a 50 $ or € broadband connection isn't worth shit if all access to free files and services is disabled...Furthermore, with the economic recession more and more sites turn into pay-per-view business models (ign, gamespot, salon) or are simply disappearing...Leaving the gap to big media companies to turn the Net into some sort of preprogrammed Mtv...Strange since Napster that besides being illegal openened loatsa people's mind that there is more music available than what is on the Mtv playlist, was THE driver for broadband... I guess loatsa people jump ship when broadband doesn't offer any value for money anymore...In some research I read that broadband has a low priority and is one of the first thing people get rid off... Copyright protected media files (only 1 or 2 €/$ per track) that cannot be transferred, pay to-listen to an online cast...Crappy video format highlights of the World Cup for just $19.99(!)...and then they wonder: "where did all the people go?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idoru Posted June 25, 2002 Share Posted June 25, 2002 i would like to know: online radio like goablaze and philosomatika do not have comercials...nor are there a bunch of add ods on the sites...no banners or pop ups and such. its just some guy with music that hes playing and putting it on the internet. how then can they pass a law that says the guy cant play his music and let us listen to it? if its copyrighted...then they should have to prove that his files arent from cd or albums he owns...as you are allowed to make a copy for yourself. whats the difference between him playing stuff on his computer and letting us hear it...and him playing it on his stereo and leaving his window open for the neighbors to hear it (besides the obvious scale)? i dont see how this law is constitutional (as im assuming its being passed in the u.s.) i do not see how the artists desevre a cut on non profit internet radio. its bull. what kind of a percentage do they think they can get off zero money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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