Re: selling music

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

>"One industry spokesman apparently said it's deregulation of radio that's 
>led to the current unhappy situation--only the most mainstream fare makes 
>it onto the airwaves."
>
>I don't buy that argument.  Technology is changing the market IMHO.
>MP3 ripping and file sharing were only the first wave.  The next wave is 
>satellite and internet 'radio'.  Personally, I never listen to music on 
>broadcast radio, anymore.  I used to be addicted to it.

Definitely technology changes the market.  It's one of the big breakers of 
monopoly.  The music industry is very rich and very powerful, though, and 
they've moved to try and head off loss of their profits.  Here's an 
interesting link about a proposed royalty rate for Internet radio that seems 
to be worrying everybody.  For one thing, it double-charges established 
radio stations for the same songs.  And for another, it would likely break 
newbie Internet stations.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020226/77/16f48.html


keets



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