Re: [microsound] podcasting/audioblogs/net.radio/p2p

[Malte Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting is that webradio and other streaming media is virtually 
killed in Germany by april. Simular to US a year ago or so, the 
rightholders societys GEMA and GVL increased the pauschal wages so 
incredible high that almost every free webradio shuts down in the 
moment. It goes together with strange rules about how many times an 
artist can be played in a row, making retrospectives impossible. I don't 
know if the often suggested solution to play artists which are not 
members of Gema (like me :) ) is valid or everything is plain illegal.

Musicindustry acts now for some years as they want to kill themselves 
but this outragious behaviour even calls some politicians to duty (who 
normally ignore new media at best or fight against jobs by implementing 
software patents) because even they see that this kills new developments 
like podcasting:

(links in german, maybe the fish helps)

http://www.golem.de/0503/37038.html
http://de.indymedia.org/2005/03/109339.shtml

And didn't Apple downgrade Itunes so it can't stream mp3s? There it goes 
the digital life hub I guess...


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