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Re:Is turntable.fm legal? by badclient on Friday July 29, 2011 @06:12PM (#2824026)
Disagree. You make pennies on an mp3 purchase at best. It takes a lot of pennies and purchases just to hit 10 bucks.
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Re:Is turntable.fm legal? by shmageggy on Friday July 29, 2011 @08:57PM (#2824486)
The entire traditional music licensing world is based on scaling up pennies and it has provided real income for many for a long time.
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Re:Is turntable.fm legal? by badclient on Friday July 29, 2011 @10:30PM (#2824667)
Pennies from radio play is different from pennies from an mp3 sale.

I don't know any start-up making significant $ from mp3 referral sales. Tops they may make couple grand but that is not much when you are getting 5m uniques(won't even pay for the streaming; and making 2k from mp3 affiliate sales is tough even with 5M uniques.)

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