Internet Radio Will Continue, Thanks to New Agreement With Labels
After years of quibbling with record labels, sweating a 2007 government-proposed royalty hike, and dealing with their increasingly uncertain future, Internet radio stations are finally off the hook, the New York Times reports. These stations -- among which Pandora and Slacker are probably the best known -- enable users to enjoy custom-tailored streams of music, free of charge. Because the sites ...
Facing extinction thanks to new (much higher) per-track and per-user fees being levied on them by the RIAA come July 15, thousands of Internet radio stations last week held a "Day of Silence" in which they didn't broadcast a single sound, giving listeners a preview of what to expect after the financial bloodbath. Despite the silence, it seems people were listening. SoundExchange, the ...









