No More Pandora? WTF?
I read this article after seeing it listed on TechCrunch and it made me sick to think that Pandora might go away as a result of the fees that they have to pay to stream each song that they play via their web site. The part that sucks (and that I didn’t know before I read the article) is that the fees for playing each song vary between terrestrial (the AM/FM that most people don’t even use any more), satellite (those of us with Sirius or XM) and web radio stations (like Pandora).
What the hell is up with that? Why aren’t they all paying the same fees? Why are great web sites like Pandora doomed to failure because of the inequities in the fee structure? I sure as hell hope that there is some way for Pandora to survive. Kudos to Rep. Howard Berman for trying to broker a deal to get the rates reduced.
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