This is a shocking blow to small business, the individual, and the mom & pop store, who only want the right to launch a huge, massive billboard into space that may some day break apart and kill astronauts to advertise their product as an expression of the free market.
Wow.. I had been thinking about writing an e-mail to some companies about this very concept for the past few months. I imagined a device where you entered in a URL for any of a set of different types of digital sound data streams (RealPlayer, WinAmp, Ogg Vorbis, etc) and then over a wireless signal it sends you the broadcast of the Internet-resident radio station.
A great way to thwart the RIAA/FCC supression of Internet Radio stations via their little gimmick with forcing people to keep track of songs and pay double royalties for each one played would be to have a grass-roots movement of bands creating songs that have a Creative Commons Copyright... so the songs can be played for free by anyone, but if some Corporation wants to make money off the song, THEY are the ones who have to pay. This would also be a boost for street musicians who have no contracts with the big music industry.
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This is a shocking blow to small business, the individual, and the mom & pop store, who only want the right to launch a huge, massive billboard into space that may some day break apart and kill astronauts to advertise their product as an expression of the free market.
But he doesnt have to pay for XM or Sirius, in this case...
A great way to thwart the RIAA/FCC supression of Internet Radio stations via their little gimmick with forcing people to keep track of songs and pay double royalties for each one played would be to have a grass-roots movement of bands creating songs that have a Creative Commons Copyright... so the songs can be played for free by anyone, but if some Corporation wants to make money off the song, THEY are the ones who have to pay. This would also be a boost for street musicians who have no contracts with the big music industry.