Nothing wrong with that, by the way. Just something wrong with nothing but that.
That's why the CARP/LOC ruling is so awful and wrong. It's about maintaining the star-making machinery that starts with the recording industry and works its way through commercial broadcasting, mass market advertising, arena performance events, cross-promotion and all the rest of it.
Music file sharing was the listeners' way of working around the failure of commercial radio to serve any form of passion or connoisseurship about music. When the RIAA killed Napster, it was understandable to the degree that Napster conceivably threatened the very revenues on which the industry depended.
Internet radio is also a way listeners, as well as professional broadcasters, can perform that same work-around. But this time the RIAA's attacks are not in self-defense. Through CARP/LOC, the RIAA and its allies are viciously and murderously attacking something that not only fails to threaten them, but actually serves the very artists they pretend to care about.
Internet radio is actually good for the record business. But that's not the issue here. Control is. Internet radio isn't an industry. Mostly it's personal. And it's completely out of anyone's control, like the rest of the Net. The entertainment industry can't tolerate that.....
See the rest on Doc's site, and think deep thoughts.
Article comments
1 - marilyn
I have found my people at last! *sigh* Sooooo I am not the only person in the universe who sees no talent in most celebrity's or their pim-- uhhh agents and managers. Heh. A place where nothing Britany does is important???? To anybody?? Utopia. And let's not forget gang-banger rap, where talent is not only optional, but often completely forbidden! Get down on my thang, uh sweet baby, killa cop, ya'll. Did I just write a hit rap song? Heh. Glad I found ya. Later
2 - Eric Olsen
Glad you found us Marilyn, although we don't dismiss pop and rap ouright, and celebrity can be a fun or even revealing topic.