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Microsoft Creates Static With New Webcast Feature
An anonymous reader writes "Radio stations are upset because Microsoft is cloning their playlists -- creating sounds-alike internet radio stations without the commercials."
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So they've claimed its creation. Now they have the next couple of years to patent it.
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First I've ever heard of Microsoft ever copying Anything!
Given Microsoft's own stance on such things, I imagine they'll have no problem coughing up licensing fees to use the call letters and slogans of the 900+ radio stations they're copying.
What's the order of who we hate more again? I can never remember if Clear Channel scores higher on the Evil Index than Microsoft... ;-)
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M$ is paying their royalty fees, we'd all sure hate for the RIAA to go after M$!
Snicker, snicker, giggle, guffaw, and the gut rumbling belly laugh.
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
What's this? They're misusing their four letters, and a slogan that any halfwit with a marketing degree signed in crayon could come up with? (And has, all across the country?) Oh, please stop, I'm gonna bust out cryin'.
John Allers, you owe me a new keyboard. Mine is full of Dr. Pepper.
You might want to tell Clear Channel that. They've obviously not gotten the memo.
I believe I can sum up the radio stations' entire complaint in one word:
"Waaah!"
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More radio, less reboots
Maybe if all the radio stations across the US didn't sound exactly alike....
Damn it all. There you people go again, complaining about the programming we broadcasting executives give you.
Do you have a freaking clue how hard our work is? Spend an hour... JUST ONE STUPID HOUR... with an artist. Do you have any idea how maintenance-intensive these people are? As if we need more artists!!! We've worked hard to narrow our list and after twenty years with the current crew, we think you all should be as happy as slugs in a pan of beer with quality choices like:
o Michael Jackson
o Madonna
o Ace of Base (yea, we don't like them either but some idiot at their label renewed their contract)
o John Tesh
Oh and don't miss the hot new release of the great 'green' artist, Dave Matthews Band, in their new album "Smells Like Greyhound Spirit" - a nickle from every album purchase goes to the environmental and/or legal defense fund of Dave's choice.
And please, quit listening to all that industrial european stuff. As if we need more forms of music. We all know the Elvis discovered it all and there is no more new music, so quietly go to a Best Buy near you and buy your favorite RIAA products there.
Somebody help me out, I am confused? Who should I hate in this article? Microsoft of Radio stations and their RIAA connections? Who is the good guy? I am all confused, I think I am going to have a seisure?
...and call it "U".
:P
That way, they can give back "F", "U", and "D".
"People" using "unnecessary" quotes should be "shot".
The radio stations vs. MS - who does /. hate more? Head will explode as geeks, nerds, and other basement people decide among two (count'em, two!) evils!
"There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter," Jeeves, (Jeeves and the Impending Doom)
Ok, Ok, we have heard a bit of shit talking about the homogenous radio stations in this country. I think we should all keep in mind that these stations with 10 song playlists perform a very real service in this day and age.
let me tell you a tale:
back in highschool this band called "Green Day" came out and were all the rage. Well, our local clone picked up the single from the first album and played it non-stop. I actually liked it the first time I heard it but grew to hate it as it was played at least 5 times an hour.
Now, if it wasn't for the services on KNDD "The End" I might have ended up liking "Green Day"!! Or even worse: pop-punk!!!
One word: Lindows.
(odds are I'm misspelling it. Oh well, it's like 6AM, and I haven't finished my coffee)
Is the correct spelling written on the bottom of your cup?
The Slashdot Companion Reader to (Score:+5; Insightful) for New Moderators:
... - (+1; repeated elipsis use vice rational structure)
cryptofascist drones - (+1; angry big words)
ClearChannel - (-1; proper name)
micro$oft - (+4; M$ reference)
Great Hits By PreFab Pop Stars - (+1; cheap shot at pop culture - except iPods, don't f with iPods)
average American (who, by and large, has precious little in the way of cultural sophistication and intelligence) - (+2; US bashing)
carbon copy crapola - (+3; fecal reference *with* alliteration)
But the facts are simple - (+1; self-proclaimed expert analysis)
radio stations had REAL DJs that were allowed to play whatever the fuck they wanted to - (+1; whine for the past that never existed)
and then hired DJs on the basis of the depth and breadth of their musical selections and the cleverness of their song choices - (+4; passionate appeal to the Creative Culture)
there is No Way M$ could copy that - (+2; second M$ reference, but still pretty good)
Example: the DJs of San Francisco might not fair very well in Oklahoma City. But it would all be by Sensibility, which is the most crucial marker of aesthetic choice. - (-1; mixed caps and big words are good, but proper spelling is costly)
But Bog Forbid anyone figure THAT one out - (+5 incitefu- err Insightful: munged $deity reference for additional karma - boosts meta karma too in a karmic kind of way *with* gross oversimplication of the facts)
the closestthing you can do is get a live365 station but that's expensive and a bit of a rip off - (+5; be still my palpating heart - put this guy on someone's payroll)
RS - (+1; so well known, Master Ralph Spoilsport is known simply by his initials)