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RIAA Seeks Royalties From Radio

Posted by kdawson on from the deja-vu-all-over-again dept.

SierraPete writes "First it was Napster; then it was Internet radio; then it was little girls, grandmothers, and dead people. But now our friends at the RIAA are going decidedly low-tech. The LA Times reports that the RIAA wants royalties from radio stations. 70 years ago Congress exempted radio stations from paying royalties to performers and labels because radio helps sell music. But since the labels that make up the RIAA are not getting the cash they desire through sales of CDs, and since Internet and satellite broadcasters are forced to cough up cash to their racket, now the RIAA wants terrestrial radio to pay up as well."

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  1. Re:From the article... by weorthe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember kids, listening to the radio is STEALING!!!

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  2. Re:I always find it unnerving... by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sometimes it's just downright hilarious.

    The Onion, February 2004:

    Stop. I just had a stroke of genius. Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler. Here she comes: Put another aloe strip on that fucker, too. That's right. Five blades, two strips, and make the second one lather. You heard me--the second strip lathers. It's a whole new way to think about shaving. Don't question it. Don't say a word. Just key the music, and call the chorus girls, because we're on the edge--the razor's edge--and I feel like dancing.

    CNN, September 2005:

    Gillette has escalated the razor wars yet again, unveiling a new line of razors on Wednesday with five blades and a lubricating strip on both the front and back.

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  3. Re:From the article... by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 3, Funny

    If the radio stations are making money by playing the Supremes' music, I can see why she might say that.

  4. Re:Give them what they want! by toleraen · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I may quote Lewis Black...

    MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken.

  5. Re:Give them what they want! by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    A delicious mix of herbs and spices that makes music better?

    I don't get it.

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  6. Top Ten "What's next"... by The_REAL_DZA · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the riaa (they don't deserve capitals) home office deep in side the Twilight Zone, the top ten upcoming attempted revenue sources/potential targets for their harassment:

    • 10. Marching bands
    • 9. Wedding singers
    • 8. Kindergarten classes (they see a veritable MINT in The Hokey Pokey alone!)
    • 7. "Hold-Music"
    • 6. "Elevator-Music"
    • 5. Doorbells (esp. the kind like at the Clampett mansion on The Beverly Hillbillies)
    • 4. Ambulance sirens (their lawyers are nostalgic about chasing them anyway...)
    • 3. Organ grinders
    • 2. Merry-go-rounds
    And the #1 next target for their evil attentions:
    • 1. Jingles you get stuck in your head on the way to work and hum the same three bars of all day long (not that that ever happens to me, but a pox on The Astelins on that stupid antihistimine commercial!!!)
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  7. Re:Awww, diddums by Goldarn · · Score: 3, Funny

    So you have to keep working to get money? What a novel concept. No-one else in the population has to work until retirement age, do they? What makes you think you get to stop working when you hit retirement age, slacker? Lazy people like you are the reason we can't privatize social security!