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Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record
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| By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats
| have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent
| most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who
| ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose
| anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
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| Last year, Biden sponsored an RIAA-backed bill called the Perform Act aimed
| at restricting Americans' ability to record and play back individual songs
| from satellite and Internet radio services. (The RIAA sued XM Satellite Radio
| over precisely this point.)
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html
Recent:
The Internet Radio Death Watch
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| Don't forget, vast illegal file-sharing networks are still operating just a
| few clicks away. The RIAA's legal Whac-A-Mole has barely slowed them down. If
| this unfair royalty scheme kills off legal, legitimate businesses like
| Pandora and the recently shut-down Muxtape, those users will simply go
| somewhere else. And that destination is more likely to be BitTorrent than a
| record store. The record industry may think it is killing off Internet radio,
| but it's merely opening Pandora's box.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2328508,00.asp
Pandora Reaching Its Epilogue?
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| Many are predicting the upcoming demise of the company as a result of a
| federal panel ruling ordering them to pay twice the royalties to artists that
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| they already were.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/18/pandora-reaching-its-epilogue
Pandora can't make money, may pull the plug
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| Buckling under the weight of the Internet radio royalty hike that
| SoundExchange pushed through last July, Pandora may pull its own plug soon.
| Despite being one of the most popular Internet radio services, the company
| still isn't making money, and its founder, Tim Westergren, says it can't last
| beyond its first payment of the higher royalties
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080818-pandora-cant-make-money-may-pull-the-plug.html
Royalty fee 'to damage net radio'
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| Hundreds of US net radio stations face potential closure from Monday when
| they will be expected to comply with a new royalties ruling for playing
| music.
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| Smaller stations face a payment increase of 1,200% while larger station could
| owe up to 300% more, lobby group SaveNetRadio has said.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6896152.stm
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