NFLnut;442274 Wrote:
> Wow! Do you mean that PRIVATE enterprises could POSSIBLY come together
> and solve problems WITHOUT GOVERNMENT help?!! Say it isn't so! I
> thought we were just too dumb to do things on our own!
Depends on how you look at it: the rates set originally were
impossible. (Especially for "on the fly" stations... Pandora has a
stupidly large number of "stations", as does last.fm, rhapsody, etc..
Each would have had to pay an expensive base rate. ("BillyJoes favorite
songs!" would count as a station, even if only one person listened, and
even if he listened to it only once...)
Several congresscritters actually intervened and put the new rates on
hold, forcing them to reconsider the rates....
So, yes, it was Government Intervention that deferred the original rate
changes and forced a reconsideration.
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