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RG;
Thanks for the link.
Wow, we have such an inefficient/ineffectual government, you wouldn't think they'd have so precisley figured out how to kill streaming radio.
Time for all us consumers to band together and start charging the record companies for access to our listening areas.
Ya think?
http://www.loc.gov/crb/
Internet radio will not be "driven out of business" by this ruling. Only US based internet radio will be affected. There will still be thousands of non-US based internet radio streams available. The internet is a very big place.
Ah!
That sounds alot like how our country has so successfully managed internet poker!
I see a future where the poker capital of the world is somewhere in the Carribean, the capitol of internet radio is in Shanghai (until the Russian mafia strong arms them out of the business), and people travel to South Korea for stem cell derived therapies.
Buddha,
You forgot England for clones!!
On a more serious note, the US and US based businesses really need to learn that strong arm techniques may not work all that well when enacted on the global stage. For example, the RIAA's, which stands for the "Recording Industry Association of America", ridiculous methods of trying to stem the tide of music sharing on the the internet, either by arresting the end user or placing useless DRM on legally downloaded music, have both failed within the US and been rejected outright in many other countries.
Within all the talk about EMI's plans to sell DRM free music and how Steven Job's essay paved the way, there's little mention of how several European countries were either not allowing the sale of DRMed music or planning to end that practice shortly. While Job's essay certainly brought the issue in the public eye, in the end it was the potential loss of revenue which really brought about the industry's change of heart. As any good detective novel will tell you "just follow the money".