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The Buy Button
November 03, 2012 | 10:36 AM
I love the fact that Pandora can introduce you to music that you can buy and add to your own collection.
The Recording industry in its never ending stupidity adamantly HATES Pandora. Ironically, Pandora, because of the Recording Industry's insistence and lobbying is required to pay them for each song they play. This fee isn't trivial either, it actually jeopardizes Pandora's future existence, and the Record Industry want to increase it!
But SiriusXM, which I love as well, doesn't pay the same fee. They get to pay a bit less while terrestrial radio gets to play music and pay no fee at all!
This is a travesty and speaks to the pure evil of the current Recording industry. Pandora drives them sales (I have bought dozens of songs they've introduced me too), but the Recording industry wants them dead, dead, dead.
I am hoping for day when Apple and Amazon and Google truly empower artists with self publishing of their music. The app stores already provide this in spades, they only need to bring the same feature to artists to utilize in iTunes. At that point the "giants" of the recording industry can then die the death they so richly deserve and Pandora can get a much more favorable licensing plan from Apple, Amazon, and Google, or from the artists themselves.
Jason
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