A Reprieve For Net Radio? 115
Porsupah writes "The Register reports that "Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL) have headed the 'Internet Radio Equality Act,' which aims to stop the controversial March 2 decision which puts royalty of a .08 cent per song per listener, retroactively from 2006 to 2010 on internet radio," as imposed by a recent decision from the Copyright Royalty Board. "If passed, today's bill would set new rates at 7.5 percent of the webcaster's revenue — the same rate paid by satellite radio.""
Re:Good to Hear (Score:5, Insightful)
Feh!
This "fear" that the great unwashed masses would somehow use netradio as a means to obtain "free" content is the same shibboleth trotted out by the *AAs to enforce unreasonable copyright extension and maintain an outmoded business model whose only design is to continue fattenning the coffers of middlemen and executives, not "The Artists".
Kudos to the representatives for showing a semblance of sanity, brickbats to the Copyright Royalty Board for being the sellouts that they are.
Ah! Another case of "daddy I want a pony" (Score:4, Insightful)
So Nancy threw herself on the ground started crying, screaming and kicking "DADDY, I WANT A PONY. WAAAH".
In desperation, the father said "Nancy, how about a nice dog instead?".
And with that, Nancy smiled and went back to her room. She got the dog she wanted in the first place.
Re:Good to Hear (Score:4, Insightful)
You can listen to the same music whenever you like? I'd like to hear Lucinda William's "Righteously." The version from "Live at the Filmore", not the studio release. Right now. Where do I tune in to hear that?
retroactively?? (Score:5, Insightful)
How the hell are you supposed to predict when congress will get a burr up its butt add that to your future business plan so you don't get put out of business ( or goto jail )?
Re:Good to Hear (Score:3, Insightful)
The only way you will ever hear your favorite artist, in truely lossless format, is to be in the same room with them and hear them.
Don't trust amplification systems either... many of these use circuits that will clip or otherwise distort the analog signal, reducing it's fidelity.
In truth, unless you have the rare opportunity to hear your favorite artist perform acoustically in a non amplified listening situation, you will never hear them in lossless format!
Lossless only means being able to reproduce an identical input by reversing the process used to create the output. So sure, I could make a lossless recording of any source... but if the source sucks, who cares.
I am perfectly OK with the RIAA enforcing a bitrate cap for streaming audio of the works they represent, as long as it's comparable in quality with FM radio. It meets the needs of a casual listener, while still giving the fan a incentive to buy.
Re:Got it. (Score:4, Insightful)
She records on Lost Highway records, a country-music label. Headquartered in Nashville, TN.
She's what is often labeled as "alt.country", "americana" and about 100 other labels. Basically it means "country artist who doesn't play the heavily-produced pop country that everyone seem to think is country music these days".
Eric Clapton, being one of the premiere bluesmen alive, is a lot closer to real country music than Kenny Chesney too.