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| From | rob@splitsville.com |
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| Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:38:40 -0500 |
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Stupid f**ks.
Pandora is a fantastic site and a great friend to musicians.
As for my own personal experience, it's been very good to and for Splitsville. It's even oddly created a bit of a groundswell of popularity (I use that phrase in relative terms!) for one of the band's older tracks, 'Ponce de Leon'. Apparently the track has found a nice home on 'Ben Folds Five Radio', and it's finding an audience that never would have heard it without Pandora.
Every musician on this list should submit stuff immediately if you haven't already.
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>From: :audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Sent: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:26:13
>
>http://techdirt.com/articles/20080109/032038.shtml
>
>Sometimes You Wonder If The Recording Industry Is
>Purposely Destroying
>Itself
>from the no-more-pandora-in-the-UK dept
>
>Back in May, we noted that the recording industry,
>in a
>shooting-itself-in-the-foot method, was demanding
>that music discovery
>site Pandora block all non-US listeners, over an
>argument concerning the
>exact licensing terms of the music that Pandora
>streams. The recording
>industry has been demanding that Pandora sign
>separate licensing
>agreements in every country, or it must block them.
>Now, for anyone who
>has actually used Pandora, it takes all of about
>three seconds to
>recognize that it's the type of service that should
>be the recording
>industry's best friend. You put in songs, musicians
>or even styles of
>music that you like, and Pandora finds you new
>music that it plays in a
>stream, like a personalized radio station. Pandora
>makes it incredibly
>easy to both discover and buy new music. If I
>worked for a record label,
>I'd be running around the world heavily promoting
>Pandora, and working
>with it to promote new artists. Yet, instead, in
>true RIAA fashion, it's
>demanding a tithe instead. While Pandora has been
>blocked in many
>countries since back in July, it kept going in the
>UK, believing that it
>would work out a reasonable solution there.
>Apparently not. As countless
>UK-based Pandora fans have been submitting over and
>over again, Pandora
>is now shutting off access to UK listeners. What
>does this accomplish?
>As far as I can tell, all it does is take away a
>wonderful music
>discovery service that helped push people to
>actually buy music. Only in
>the minds of recording industry execs would a
>company doing free
>advertising for you be seen as something that needs
>to be shut down.
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