Internet Radio in danger of dying out (again)

[TeleportSandwich]

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004125.html

This may or may not be cause for alarm, but the question remains as to why the RIAA would want to do this and whether this is just the invisible hand of the market at work of if this is the record companies trying to create an internet radio oligopoly. Disucuss.

Also, in before GPS accusing people of beign communist :awesome:

[Gundampilotspaz]

This is insane, and will kill internet radio and hurt NPR

The record companies are greedy, heartless corporations that don't know what the consumer wants and can't tell art from someone screaming after being kicked in the balls.

[No Sad Endings]

This is insane, and will kill internet radio and hurt NPR

The record companies are greedy, heartless corporations that don't know what the consumer wants and can't tell art from someone screaming after being kicked in the balls.

IT's not that they don't know what art is, it's that they don't give a shit.

But yes, they're heartless and greedy. That's not the thing that boggles me though, corporations generally exist to be heartless and greedy. THe thing that boggles me is their inability to see the need to adapt to the times. Hello? Businesses don't survive if they don't adapt?

Not that it's a new thing for the RIAA. When radio (of the actual radio wave sort) first became a thing, they did campaigns about how it was 'stealing money' and 'hurting the artists.'

[J-Stop]

Internet radio still exists? I thought everyone moved onto Podcasts.

At any rate, it would suck if it died out due to the RIAA.

[Gundampilotspaz]

Internet radio still exists? I thought everyone moved onto Podcasts.

At any rate, it would suck if it died out due to the RIAA.

The price to have real music on Podcasts is insane.

[Poophy]

Half of what I listen to is internet radio stations on shoutcast

[Poophy]

http://www.savenetradio.org/