Tag: riaa
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Mafiaa (RIAA) Victim # 1 – Internet Radio in Danger of Extinction
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…
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The BIG DRM (digital rights management) mistake
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…