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Labels Find New Method of Payola
rhadamanthus writes "The Houston Chronicle is reporting on the newest 'legal' payola tactic put forth by the record industry: playing the song as an advertisement. It seems that while it is illegal to pay a radio station to play a song, it is not illegal to play a song as an ad. Quoth the article, 'The practice is legal as long as the station makes an on-air disclosure of the label's sponsorship -- typically with an introduction such as "And now, Avril Lavigne's Don't Tell Me, presented by Arista Records."' Incidentally, that song was played 109 times in one week by Nashville station WQZQ-FM."
Hmmm interesting. We should keep an eye on these fellows. With this kind of business practice there's no telling what they might try. ~sarcasm~
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...of my close friends if I name it "Metallica - One - By Geffen records.mp3"?
This would have upset me deeply had I read the article before posting.
You get music where you live?
All I hear on the radio is inane DJ banter and ads. I've given up on radio since I can't hear music. My next car will have satellite radio for sure (asssuming they ave all music channels then).
6 * a few hundred dollars?
"Area man keeps telling everyone he doesn't own a radio"
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Seriously...who listens to the rubbish that passes for (music) radio these days?
Well excuse me, Captain Pompousolous. No, of course none of the uber Slashdot readers would ever actually listen to RADIO.
If you're not streaming indie og's on your 802.11g network to your home-built audio appliance, well, you're just a SHEEP. baaa baa baa
As a matter of fact, I feel so strongly about this, I'm going to refuse to actually get a life, and instead will spend all day in my mom's basement. That will show those record companies.
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But not one instant earlier?
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oooh sirius has xxx streams? I just might have to subscribe now.
Radio? Isn't that what WiFi, Bluetooth, and GSM use? You can listen to music for free over it? How come nobody told me???
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
I can change the filename of the song to
"Avril Lavigne's Don't Tell Me, presented by Arista Records.mp3"
and I instantly have a legal mp3??
You take me out and pay for it
I tell you things you're gonna get
When it comes time to screw
I say not with you!
I can lie take your money and cheat
But don't treat me like a piece of meat!
Don't tell me what to do!
I'm going to go have sex with your abusive friend in a week or two.
Okay, fair dinkum RIAA, I will give you free advertising; In fact you dont even have to supply me with tunes; Ill rip them myself and play them to my friends; Hey maybe since Im advertising your tunes for free, maybe you could offset the cost by reducing the price of CDs...
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At least XM has "Playboy Radio" or something. heh.
That's kind of like listening to a golf game on the radio.
At first I thought your sig was a goatse joke..
You mean to tell me, that we made a law, and giant corperations stepped around it like a pile of shit in the road??
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I may be alone in this, but I'd rather hear some crap new song than another McDonald's commercial...