Yesterday US based Internet Radio stations staged a day of silence in protest of a new royalty rate hike. But the rate increase really exists for the sole purpose of killing Internet radio and has been approved by the US Copyright Royalty Board. The scheme was masterminded by Sound Exchange a group that works in conjunction with the RIAA to ...

For those cubicle creatures stuck in front of a computer all day – a la Office Space – online radio has become a buffer between the worker and monotony, even insanity.    One of the most popular streaming music sites is the bandwidth baron Pandora.com, which allows users to build custom playlists by first entering an artist or ...

The RIAA is behind a new royalty scheme aimed at killing Internet radio. The Copyright Royalty Board approved new rates proposed by SoundExchange. SoundExchange is the RIAA’s royalty collection agency.   The new royalty rates involve performance fees for recorded music. A performance is any instance of a song being played back or ...

Can a bureaucracy with no regulatory apparatus to balance ends justification of means be truly evil? You bet! The debate came up recently on Gizmodo in the guise of a debate on the true intentions of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). For the uninitiated the RIAA purports to protect artists and the music industry at large by ...