Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Sirius XM Passes RIAA Tax On To Consumers
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> | Not quite sure how I missed this earlier (update: oops, turns out we
> | didn't miss it -- so consider this an encore presentation), but Bret
> | alerts us to the news that with the ever increasing royalty rates pushed
> | by the RIAA in the form of its "spin-off" Sound Exchange, and codified
> | by the Copyright Royalty Board (for whom I still do not understand how
> | anyone can justify its existence), that Sirius XM has simply added a $2
> | RIAA tax to everyone's monthly bills to help pay for the new performance
> | royalties. Yup, because the RIAA and its members haven't been able to
> | come up with a business model that works
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> http://techdirt.com/articles/20090818/1543205916.shtml
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Satellite radio is pretty cool, but a bit pricey anyways. Just dump it and
go buy yourself a NON-DRM'ed music player and play what you own...
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