There are counter parts for RIAA in most countries, in Sweden we have STIM thats collecting money from airplay and clubs and all other kinds of broadcast/venues.
How would ordinarie air play trough FM work if this were like SuperQ said ? no radio station would care to exist. Or do those dinosaurs make a difference between FM radio and internetradio ? SuperQ;253186 Wrote: > Yea, I talked to the Pandora people a few months ago about this. > > They pay one single company a royalty rate (RIAA? I forget) for their > music streams in the US. This makes it very easy for them to operate. > Count the number of tracks played to people with US IP addresses and > they're done. > > Now for example, in Germany they need to get a contract/license for > every single record company that they could possibly play tracks for. > It would be extremely complex and costly for them to do this. So they > can't offer the service there. It's VERY annoying but that's the way > it works. Swedish Radio has web based radio and that is working ? Intresting experiment would be to se if its working in other countries, try P3 street just for fun: mms://wm-live.sr.se/SR-P3Street-High In the ends it's ultimately a loss for the record companies, as the alternative is free but illegal use of their products. They are trying the same scheme in mp3 sales, splitting the market in regions and charching more for the files. Amazon for example is not selling mp3's to Sweden ? There are other wendors that charge more for the same thing here ? Thanks for you input now I'm off to shop some DRM free flac's from Magnatune. They have sane bussines methods. I vote with my money it's very effective in the end. -- Mnyb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41626 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
