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A Reprieve For Net Radio?
Porsupah writes "The Register reports that "Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL) have headed the 'Internet Radio Equality Act,' which aims to stop the controversial March 2 decision which puts royalty of a .08 cent per song per listener, retroactively from 2006 to 2010 on internet radio," as imposed by a recent decision from the Copyright Royalty Board. "If passed, today's bill would set new rates at 7.5 percent of the webcaster's revenue — the same rate paid by satellite radio.""
What, like people weren't using FM radio as "an excuse to get around copyright" in the 60s and 70s?
Feh!
This "fear" that the great unwashed masses would somehow use netradio as a means to obtain "free" content is the same shibboleth trotted out by the *AAs to enforce unreasonable copyright extension and maintain an outmoded business model whose only design is to continue fattenning the coffers of middlemen and executives, not "The Artists".
Kudos to the representatives for showing a semblance of sanity, brickbats to the Copyright Royalty Board for being the sellouts that they are.
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
When little Nancy wanted a dog, she went to her father and said "daddy, I want a pony". Her father looked at Nancy and smiled and said "Nancy, horses cost a lot of money". But Nancy persisted "DADDY,I WANT A PONY". Her father frowned a bit "Nancy, besides costing so much, we'd need a stable and the horse would have to be trained and cared for".
So Nancy threw herself on the ground started crying, screaming and kicking "DADDY, I WANT A PONY. WAAAH".
In desperation, the father said "Nancy, how about a nice dog instead?".
And with that, Nancy smiled and went back to her room. She got the dog she wanted in the first place.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
Why download hundreds of mp3s when I can listen to the same music streaming from the internet?
You can listen to the same music whenever you like? I'd like to hear Lucinda William's "Righteously." The version from "Live at the Filmore", not the studio release. Right now. Where do I tune in to hear that?
"The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others." Thomas Jefferson.
The whole idea of changing the rules then penalizing you from actions in the past should be banned.
How the hell are you supposed to predict when congress will get a burr up its butt add that to your future business plan so you don't get put out of business ( or goto jail )?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Actually... no digital media is lossless... its sampled from an analog source, so by definition it cannot be lossless.
The only way you will ever hear your favorite artist, in truely lossless format, is to be in the same room with them and hear them.
Don't trust amplification systems either... many of these use circuits that will clip or otherwise distort the analog signal, reducing it's fidelity.
In truth, unless you have the rare opportunity to hear your favorite artist perform acoustically in a non amplified listening situation, you will never hear them in lossless format!
Lossless only means being able to reproduce an identical input by reversing the process used to create the output. So sure, I could make a lossless recording of any source... but if the source sucks, who cares.
I am perfectly OK with the RIAA enforcing a bitrate cap for streaming audio of the works they represent, as long as it's comparable in quality with FM radio. It meets the needs of a casual listener, while still giving the fan a incentive to buy.
Sometimes the best solution is to stop wasting time looking for an easy solution.
Lucinda Williams *is* country, she's just not the crappy country anyone is allowed to hear on the radio.
She records on Lost Highway records, a country-music label. Headquartered in Nashville, TN.
She's what is often labeled as "alt.country", "americana" and about 100 other labels. Basically it means "country artist who doesn't play the heavily-produced pop country that everyone seem to think is country music these days".
Eric Clapton, being one of the premiere bluesmen alive, is a lot closer to real country music than Kenny Chesney too.