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How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the using-their-rules-against-them dept.

An anonymous reader shot us off a link to an article discussing how to use the RIAA's System to Broadcast Music Legally. Now, I'm no lawyer, but if the facts are correct in this article, we're talking about a price point that makes streaming radio extremely inexpensive. There's a lot of worthless spite in this article, but if you can look past that, you might see something worth thinking about.

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  1. Not a chance... by volkris · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He's obviously not read the regulations very carefully...

    Among other places where this scheme is legally questionable, the rules explicitly prevent radio stations from doing things like allowing listeners to democratically select which songs to play.

    There are also a whole list of regulations specifying what orders songs can't play in, how often they can play, etc.

    And that's not even getting into the somewhat complicated setup with the actual music houses that collect royalties, which aren't the RIAA itself.

    This guy needs to do a little more research and try again.

  2. The better way... by mcgroarty · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The better way to infuriate the RIAA would be to have a "station" that's really a framework to broadcast music contributed by the users, and to then have those users pay the broadcasting fees.

    I promise you that it would cost the RIAA more to process a five thousand 7 cent checks than they'd earn in the exercise. :-)