Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio

Re:Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio by baddox on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @09:26PM (#3536349)

So radio is only acceptable because it's bad for the consumer? Does making radio better (by allowing on-demand listening) suddenly make it illegal/immoral/bad?

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Re:Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio by jeffool on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @10:09PM (#3536466)

Radio pays far more per song than Internet streamers do. Running a radio station is $x/song, on the web it's $x/song/listener.

(Radio stations cost lots to set up up front, web radio costs kick in when you get bigger, but until then you'd have to operate at a loss, or go ad heavy.

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Re:Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio by baddox on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @11:34PM (#3536708)

That's a completely different (and more valid) argument than "pirating lets you listen on demand but radio doesn't."

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