Thanks for asking Michael. There is and it's called the Performance Rights Act. It's designed among other things to create greater parity. keep your eyes out for emails from us on this topic...
@Tim - just like last time online radio was in trouble, you asked users to participate. Are there any pieces of legislation or people in Congress Padora fans should be aware of?
Do you think the Moogis model of videos and audio, along with social networking, is a solid alternative to Pandora? (Butch Trucks may be a bit old fashioned that way?)
Licensing should be as simple as a flat rate per song. I had heard it was 35cents for radio stations, but you said earlier that there was no fees at all.
Hey Tim, I think I found a loophole. I was told to pay $1 last month to listen to Pandora once my 40 hours was up, but then I found it was still working on my iPod touch.
We never 'censor' music. So nothing excluded for content. It's all about quality. DOes it do what it's trying to do well, and will the audience who hears it like it? That's the overriding question
Next 6 months is all about mobile development, and the beginning of car implementations. Also of course refining the advertising product so we can stay afloat :)
@Tim (flannery)... music can be very moving - and of corse annoying to some people - do you face any challenges when picking songs for inclusion? Profanity, sexuality? stupidity?
Tim, last year, I managed to get hold of Butch Trucks of Allman Bros. He's adamantly against what he sees as music theft online. But he subsequently has started a site that uses social networking and video (via Moogis). What do you think of that model?
uhg.. playlists. I once had a conversation with a company that claimed "the playlist" would be the biggest thing in online music. Whatever happened to LP albums?
The RIAA going after people pirating music on P2P and BitTorrent has shifted. When they realized they couldn't get anywhere in the courts, they backed off and are instead asking ISPs to deal with the users instead. The RIAA are totally greedy and they destroy lives. While I do not condone music piracy, I think there are better approaches to it.
to me it would be the type of ads. There was an over the air station that played the dance music I loved, but the commercials done hip hop style were annoying. People have to realize the commercials pay the freight. I listen to Old Time Radio, and in those days, the sponsor, mostly cigarettes or oil companies, aired two segments of commercials in a 30 minute show. Some were crafted to be entertaining.
I don't mind broadcast radio so much - mostly background noise - or something to get you pumped up. I like how Pandora and Last.fm throw in a few hard to get tracks from the past. It gets you intereseted in something old/new.
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