Re: Re: Pandora :-(

[Kevin Hawkins <yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It appears Pandora may be having difficulties with their US licensing
model as well. I wonder if this is because they effectively have a
royalty liability on a track that plays to a single user rather than the
more typical 'radio' situation where they have thousands of listeners
per track... ?

It is a great shame and a potential death blow to personalised services.
Like others have said Pandora has dramatically increased my paid for
music purchases from non mainstream artsts , and these are the people
who will suffer most. Indeed the artists who do not have albums loaded
on Napster are the ones I have consistently purchased as Napster can
stream the others for me within the subscription.

Kevin

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Dan said: (exact source unknown)

Shame Pandora will be shutting down completely in a couple months when
the RIAA?s increased licensing fees go in effect. Pandora has stated
publicly they won?t be able to afford it and will have to close.

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Exerpt from the recent release:
Tim Westergren (Pandora Founder)

Lest you think this is solely an international problem, you should know
that we are also fighting for our survival here in the US, in the face
of a crushing increase in web radio royalty rates, which if left
unchanged, would mean the end of Pandora.




mailto:support@xxxxxxx_ziggy wrote:
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>,
Kevin
> Hawkins <yahoogroupskh@...> wrote:
> >
> > Yep :-( :-( :-( waaahhh
> >
> > Sounds like an opportunity for a US based proxy server system
that
> works
> > or a VPN service perhaps ??
> >
> > K
> >
>
> Yes - another one hit here too. I use it on Squeezebox and the PCs so
> am an actual subscriber to the service. Not that I'll ask for a
refund.
>
> My first reaction was exactly as above. My father in law live and has
> a business in the US... could just piggy back on that perhaps. Maybe
> not but if someone finds a way do tell.
>
> The thing that is completely barking with the licensing thing is that
> I've never downloaded music illegally. But with Pandora, I've bought
> loads of new stuff. When I hear new groups I like, I've looked into
> them and then gone and bought the CD on-line. It really opens you to
> new stuff you would never otherwise hear. I'd guess my purchasing of
> music went up 10 fold last year (judging by the stack of cds to go
> into the loft when I can get around to it).
>
> Now the legitimate UK music industry is going to suffer because I wont
> be making these purchases and wont be introduced to new music.
> Personally, I don't listen to other music radio (I'm an inveterate
> Radio 4 listener otherwise) because I generally find it irritating
> (commercials). So in the end, the artists really do suffer a loss of
> income - in my case its probably some of the lesser bands that suffer
> most because there's no way I'll hear about them now.
>
> Makes you less inclined to play fair in the end.
>
>