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Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off
walterbyrd writes "Streaming services are ailing. Pandora, the giant of its class and the survivor at 13 years old, is waging an ugly war to pay artists and labels less in order to stay afloat. Spotify, in spite of 6 million paid users and 18 million subscribers who humor some ads in their stream, has yet to turn a profit. Rhapsody axed 15% of its workforce right as Apple's iTunes Radio hit the scene. On-demand competitor Rdio just opted for layoffs too, in order to move into a 'scalable business model.' Did no one wonder about that business-model bit in the beginning? Meanwhile, Turntable.fm, a comparatively tiny competitor with what should have been viral DNA, just pulled the plug on its virtual jam sessions this week—and it just might be the canary in the coal mine."
Sure, if you are playing label music. There's plenty of good music out there that's not attached to the RIAA.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
You know what is one of the traits I like least in a person? When they assume that it's everyone else who is ignorant, rather than check their facts.
Yes, one meaning of converse - apparently the only one you know - is to take part in a conversation. However, there is another meaning which has a similar meaning to inverse and obverse.
converse
adj
(prenominal) reversed; opposite; contrary
n
something that is opposite or contrary
a categorical proposition obtained from another by the transposition of subject and predicate, as no bad man is bald from no bald man is bad
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin conversus turned around; see
So basically, your post is laden with iron. Very irony in fact. Such disdain. Wow.
which is totally what she said
Pretty cool stuff out there for free, especially if you're just starting out and are a bit of a geek.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Uh, I think you have that backwards.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/talent
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skill
Keep the Classic Slashdot.
Humans will have music for as long as we can find something to bang on rhythmically.
Until humans get sued for banging on something rhythmically in the same way that someone else happens to already have banged on something rhythmically. See, for example, Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music and Three Boys Music v. Michael Bolton.
But these countries with sensible data plans also tend to have a smaller population.* In many cases, copyright owners charge a separate fee to license music for each territory. Even when the royalty structure doesn't have a minimum annual payment to deter small-time players, the legal costs of negotiating with a copyright owner's representative in each territory add up. I don't see how serving somewhere like Europe would necessarily scale the way it does in countries with hundreds of millions of people like USA.
* I didn't say density; I said population.
If the cited trend in this article is true, perhaps young listeners might learn of the majesty of Beethoven, the emotion of Tchaikovsky, the joy of Gershwin.
Ludwig van Beethoven and Piotr Tchaikovsky yes, George Gershwin no. Along with The Walt Disney Company, Gershwin's estate was one of the biggest lobbying forces behind the Copyright Term Extension of 1998, the statute that initiated what some believe to be Congress's policy of "perpetual copyright on the installment plan". Gershwin's piece Rhapsody in Blue, first published in 1924, is perhaps the oldest famous piece of instrumental music still under copyright in the United States.
Some law states the max square footage you are allowed to play a radio?
Yes, at least in Slashdot's home country. The bill was enacted as a rider to the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.