Bill seeks music royalties for satellite downloads

Legislation would require satellite radio companies to compensate the music industry for downloads.

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[unknown unknown]

When has the music industry ever been about fairness and competition?

They develop clever accounting schemes that ensure only the very top artists ever see a dime in royalties. They've formed a cartel that has sought to keep the price of music artificially high, and they've been caught price fixing (they're being investgating again for price fixing). Let's not forget how they reward people who still buy music, with DRM that interfers with legitimate uses and often cause trouble for the consumer *cough Sony rootkit *cough *cough.

It is really ashame congressmen and women can be bought sold like this.

[frankz00]

Call it the Piracy Protection Act of 2006

Because once they kill the satellite radio industry, piracy will be the only place left to go to get music. Idiots.

[DryHeatDave]

No

If statellite dies - you can still BUY music - cheapskate.

[JohnnyL]

More Like the Radio Protection Act

Let's see....I can record programs over the air. This proposed law doesn;t change that. I will be prevented from recording satellite programs as the bill says these companies have to avail themselves of technology to prevent theft. What I don't see here is other than having the meta data from the digital satellite recording, whats the difference between the recording radio over the ir or recording a satellite transmission. or how is this different from a DVR? Is the real problem here that the satellite companies are offering the hardware to record and store the content making them look enough like a distribution company to justify the shakedown by the labels?

[skeptik]

yeah...

Feinstein said: "I believe that the Perform Act would help strike a balance between fostering the development of new technologies and ensuring that songwriters and performers continue to be fairly compensated for their works."

Uh, Dianne, I hate to burst your bubble, but this is absolutely not about compensating the artists. If you want to do that, how about some legislation that forces the RIAA memebers to accurately account for and factually distribute royalties from the media companies to the artists who actually create the content rather than proposing yet another bill that takes money from consumers and lines the pockets of the company that does nothing more than encode a piece of art and distribute it via their monopoly system?

[SeizeCTRL]

Music Industry = Real Pirates

How much money can one industry attempt to milk? *** do they do at board meetings? Sit around and think of new ways to weasle more money off the same damn pruduct?

All these bills they introduce into congress seems like an incredible waste of time, resources and tax payers money.

The artists won't see any real financial gain out of this, only the record labels.

RIAA is fueld 100% by greed!