Can Internet Radio Survive?

curunir writes: "Salon is running an interesting interview with the program manager for the internet radio station, SomaFM. He discusses some of the effects of the recent CARP recommendations (previously discussed on /. here). We all know the DMCA is bad, but this seems to be a particularly good example of where its broad nature is curbing reasonable web uses."

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It has just as much a chance as

[tcd004]

as crooked energy trading companies!

Tcd004

internet radio has infrastructure problems

[Splork]

cost alone could kill it until a decent multicast infrastructure doesn't exist throughout the backbone and to your door via your ISPs connection.

you can't seriously expect them to fund paying for a seperate chunk of bandwidth for each individual user who's receiving exactly the same data being sent at the same time as all of the rest of the listeners identical data across zillions of the same router hops?

hmm, with multicast do they pay less royalties because less copies of the data are being made in the interim? ;)

A long shot

[NatePWIII]

I give the new satellite radio stations a better chance of surviving than internet radio, the problem with internet radio is that it require too many underlying serious infrastructural support to actually work, jeez if I want to list to the radio (FM/AM) I can just buy a cheap receiver for a couple of bucks, put in some lithium batteries and I'm set for months, not Internet connections, Real Play, computer, 24/7 broadband etc...

Lets face it, it's just too complicated that is the problem. Granted for some geeks like myself, who sit in front of there computers almost 18 hours out of any given day, it might make some sense, but people like myself probably only account for about 1.5% of the population.

There's plenty of free content out there...

[aquarian]

There's plenty of free content out there, so why all the fuss? Who says internet radio stations have to play stuff owned by record labels, etc? There are plenty of bands, and even labels, who would gladly give away their stuff for free. Then there's public domain stuff for which the copyrights have expired. Not to mention original material. Quit yer bitchin' and just do it.

Re:Free music distribution

[Snoopy77]

Excuse me? Do you instantly get modded up if you mention some sort of open license be it the GPL or this OAL?

Is this guy serious? Does he think that artist will sacrifice royalties and instead try to make a living by being on the road for all the months of the year that they aren't in the studio. Sorry I just don't see this happening at all for one major reason: royalties mean that a few months of work in the studio will continue to pay for years to come. It has worked for ages and will continue to work.

Mod me down if you must but I just though a bit of common sense needed to be thrown in.

Outsource!

[tanveer1979]

Well Well I think such laws are america centric. what if radio stations open shop in other countries which have different laws? Is there any juristdiction about this in america which can block parts of the world on internet from being viewed by americans?

Re:So do something about it....

[Lemmy Caution]

It sooooo doesn't work that way in any real scale. You keep on trying to find market solutions to an essentially political problem, and it will fail. Yes, markets are, on paper, nicer and more rational and more adaptive than political processes, but it just won't work that way for this sort of thing (IP) - the music industry has a recording and distribution infrastructure that makes it the 800 pound gorilla that it is, and music "product" isn't a commodity, in that if the music I want to listen to is caught up in the industry mechanisms, I can't go next door to "the competitor."

Just what is "the competitor" for any given type of music, anyway? I probably listen to music in the context of friends and acquaintances who share knowledge and appreciation of it.