RIAA to kill Pandora and Last.fm

Posted by The Technocrat | Filed under Audio & Video, Web

I can’t believe I haven’t heard about this on any of my feeds. It seems like once again the RIAA has done its thing once again, except this time to eradicate internet-based radio. Keep in mind that the extreme rate hikes they’re implementing apply only to internet radio; five times higher than sattellite, and nothing for terrestrial.

I can’t even describe how ridiculous this is to the future of the entire music industry, so I’ll let the long history of educated posts at Techdirt do it for me. Here’s a link to Pandora’s founder on the subject, please digg it up on your way over if you’d like to see a level playing field in this industry. Completely ridiculous – I can’t stand industrial dirtbags putting an extinct business model over fairness, and these guys are reigning kings of that genre.

I’m in charge of purchasing for a large organization, and if you take a walk around any of our facilities, you won’t be able to find one Sony product. Not a CD-R, not an A/V cable, absolutely nothing. The same goes for my This list also holds the oil companies (to as great a degree as I can manage), but that’s a whole other story.

Welcome to #3, RIAA. Be ashamed.

In the meantime, those artists who have sold their souls to RIAA for a monetary profit canjoin the shame party. For everyone else, go ahead and fire up RIAA Radar to make sure you’re not responsible for funding this type of thing. In fact, RIAA Radar just found a new home in my blogroll.

(I’d like to note here that I really am a well-meaning, good-natured guy, but stuff like this really rubs me the wrong way, especially because I know what it’s like to work hard, get something going, and have someone kill it because they’re too lazy to compete at a higher level. [many stories, multiple times...])

Comments (2) | March 20th, 2007

2 Responses to “RIAA to kill Pandora and Last.fm”

  1. Bill Says:
    March 21, 2007 at 6:40 am

    They’re shooting themselves in the foot, I’ve found a lot of new bands on Pandora, have bought their cd’s and gone to their shows. When will they learn?

  2. RyanC Says:
    March 26, 2007 at 4:05 pm

    They are just helping their own demise, when will they realise that the Internet is not a new thing any more, they need to embrace it and evolve, or remain the same and die.

    Hmm, sounds a bit morbid doesn’t it!

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