Comments:Wikinews:Briefs/April 17, 2007

Web broadcasters face 'fatal' royalties
Our artists and labels look forward to working with the Internet Radio industry - large and small, commercial and non-commercial - so that together we can ensure it succeeds as a place where great music is available to music lovers of all genres,

Translation:
 * We look forward to killing off anyone who doesn't whore themselves out to advertisers who dictate what bland crap they broadcast because some fuzzy focus group thinks that music of a certain type will appeal to their customers. Or you get subscription Internet radio... That'll go down like a lead balloon.

I despise what the management of the music industry stands for, near-perpetual copyright terms, gouging money left right and centre, claiming piracy is killing their business (stop producing crap), and then there's how they treat artists. You effectively get "lent" all the money that pays for the studio, and the producer, engineers etc. Yet you don't own the copyright on the recording - the label does. Then you see a tiny fraction of even the wholesale price of the finished product, and the money you were "lent" is taken out of it.

I'm sure ISPs will also be delighted at the prospect of Internet radio being killed off, save them loads on bandwidth costs. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:59, 17 April 2007 (UTC)