The Day The Music Died.

well, maybe just went silent.

[rocker]

The day of Internet radio silence is designed to protest new rules, decided by the Copyright Royalty Board, that will force webcasters to pay $0.0008 per song per user, retroactive to 2006. The SaveNetRadio coalition, opposed to the fee hike, says that the increases will drive many Net stations out of business

Participants in the Day of Silence include some large operations, such as Yahoo and MTV Online, and many smaller ones, including Pandora, Wizard Radio, monkeygrip music café, LuckySevenRadio.com, and others.

This increase will most likely break the back of smaller broadcasting sites.

Article [toptechnews.com]

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[edited by: rocker at 3:22 pm (utc) on June 25, 2007]

[vincevincevince]

As I understand it, the increase is back-dated.

[rocker]

As I understand it, the increase is back-dated.

Yes, it is backdated also includes annual increases.

[phranque]

this will also have a large affect on the internet operations of public, non-commercial and/or listener-supported radio.
this issue is especially important in a time of massive media consolidation, and especially considering the way rules have changed regarding overlapping local ownership.
one corporation can now largely control the print, radio and television message in some rather large metropolitan areas.

[jdMorgan]

Death throes of soon-to-be-obsolete middlemen,
or perhaps a last desperate act of defiance.

If new bands can go straight to YouTube and indy music download sites, what do we need the record companies for?

I am dead-set against music piracy. It's clearly illegal. But hopefully, in the future there will be no need for bands and artists to sign away a large portion of their income in order to be heard. The record companies no longer control the one and only distribution and marketing channel, and they see Doom coming in all its techno-egalitarian glory. Maybe they can get good job re-training advice from previous manufacturers of typewriters or other obsolete service providers...

Jim

[lgn1]

The record labels are the buggy whip manufactuers of the 21 century.

Go ask a kid under the age of 18 if they ever bought music. They will probably roll around the floor laughing.

Maybe if their was a mechanism to pay the artist directly, maybe generation y (or is it z) will start paying for music.

But its to late for the record labels and the RIAA, at least for convincing this generation.

[phranque]

they missed out when they wasted 2 years tamping napster into a legal hole instead of figuring out how to sell music online, a single at a time, which has always been the point of entry for every music consumer.
this after spending 10-15 years trying to convince everyone that the $15 cd was the only way to go...

[MatthewHSE]

Go ask a kid under the age of 18 if they ever bought music. They will probably roll around the floor laughing.

Depends on what kinds of kids you know. Most of the 18-and-under crowd that I know buy their music legally, either on CD or otherwise, and would be horrified at the idea of downloading music illegally.

[vincevincevince]

Go ask a kid under the age of 18 if they ever bought music. They will probably roll around the floor laughing.

Then ask them if they ever paid to go and see a live band.

[phranque]

Then ask them if they ever paid to go and see a live band.

kids under 18 don't get many opportunities for live music.

it's been more than 18 years since i was 18 but i spend more on live music now than on recorded music.

[lawman]

I'm waiting for a Kelly Clarkson tour to come to my area. :)

[blend27]

Happy tunes, it is driven by a greed of the "hu-men"..

SAD, DI is the sh..,..

[lgn1]

Most of the 18-and-under crowd that I know buy their music legally, either on CD or otherwise, and would be horrified at the idea of downloading music illegally.

Wow! Sounds like a good town to retire in. Sounds like you have June and Ward Cleaver as next door neighbors :)