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In defence of newspapers and serendipity
DJs would play that cool new song and build excitement for weeks until it could finally be purchased. The music industry and the radio industry had a mutually beneficial relationship, but both are now reeling from the advance of the digital age, expansion of choice, empowerment of consumers, etc ... and both are lashing out at anything and everything that threatens their once dominant business models. (I worked with XM at its launch in 2001, and the Nat'l Assoc of Broadcasters spent all of its time screaming and crying in an attempt to cripple the advance of satellite radio).
I won't go into illegal file sharing and downloads except to say I purchase all of my music. I just don't purchase as much as I used to due to lack of quality.
the "lashing out at anything and everything" part. The industry's
ability to shoot itself in the foot -- not to mention plenty of other
body parts -- while allegedly trying to protect itself is truly
amazing.
someone else who commented the last time I wrote about this topic
mentioned the same thing. I suppose that adds to the music industry's
argument that the U.S. shouldn't be able to get away with this free
ride the radio industry gets, but I still think that argument is more
a sign of desperation than anything else.
Clearly both sides benefit from the arrangement of music being played on radio [fills airtime with content that listeners want and musicians get their product publicised]- what is at issue is who should be paying who and in what proportion to the overall benefits received.
With the change, radio could become more of a national music barometer instead of record label PR teams and industry suits. Also, if you are in NY and you listen to a rock station and then go to L.A and listen to a rock station., you will hear the same music. But now, you could have NY stations playing different things because of the type of music they (NY Stations) value as opposed to LA stations. That might be interesting. It could also make the recording industry accountable for some of the garbage they hype, because the radio stations will say, "What is that crap? I'm not paying for that!" It could be that this change may fix the "Soulja Boy" problem with current radio.
Again, it all goes back to the recording industry shooting themselves in the foot. By charging radio, they lose control of deciding what is hot and what is not. It may not be something they foresee, but it might happen.