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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Dumbest Record Industry Action of the Week |
| Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:02:01 -0500 |
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crashingly bad judgment.
but not surprising.
sadly, not surprising at all.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Coxe" <audities@gmail.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:26 PM
Subject: Dumbest Record Industry Action of the Week
> 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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