re: CARP Passed - This sucks!

["matt davignon" <mattdavignon@hotmail.com>]

Now here's a question:

Can a streaming radio station exist by playing only songs of consenting 
artists and labels who are not affiliated with BMI/ASCAP?

There are enough good non-major-label artists who actually want their 
music 
to be heard to fill a huge number of stations in any genre, and I'd like 
to 
think there's a large enough audience that would be interested in hearing 
stuff that they don't already hear on the radio.

I think the reason that the major labels made the effort to squash 
internet 
radio is that they feared they would no longer have control of all the 
channels necessary to convince John Q. Average-American that the bands 
marketed by them are the only ones worth hearing. That's why they didn't 
make effort to charge the same rate to broadcast radio stations. 95% of 
broadcast radio stations exclusively play major-label material.

Anyway, it would be nice if we could turn this into a case of the majors 
shooting themselves in the foot. Wouldn't it be great if we said, "Ok, 
well 
since you're being such an asshole about it, we'll only play music by 
artists/labels who are in it for the art and community from now on."

Matt

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