Just a small bump to keep this alive and encourage more comment. I don't really know anything about the business, but it seems to me like a control-grab by the RIAA. Can anybody demonstrate how this royalty regime is going to help independent artists, who generally are struggling to pay the bills? It does appear to me that we would rather quickly end up with streaming radio owned by the big 4 labels, once they've squeezed out anybody ballsy enough to try streaming music from 'non-label' artists. Of course, then they'll squeeze revenue out of this by making them subscription only! (which at least will provide an opening for independents to get back in, providing independent music at lower subscription rates). At the end of the day, I don't think anyone should consider the RIAA and the big 4 labels to be representative of the artists. If it can be shown that this royalty regime benefits the full spectrum of music/artists, without being exclusively advantageous to a select few, then it is fine, but otherwise, it should be fought tooth & nail.
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