NewsSome Progress Made in Internet Radio Royalty Dispute, Though it's Not Enough

The online music industry has always been a touchy one, but today the world came a step closer to ending online royalty disputes. An agreement that’s being called a “breakthrough that will facilitate new ways to offer music to consumers online,” songwriters, music publishers, record labels and digital music websites have concluded a seven year dispute over mechanical royalties and limited music downloads.

Mechanical royalties are the fees paid to songwriters, composers and publishers of music, not the person that only preformed it or the record company that produced the recording. Limited music downloads are downloads with restrictions attached, such as the model used by Napster To Go. iTunes, however isn’t considered limited use because you can listen to your songs as often as you want, without a monthly fee.

As landmark as this settlement is, it still leaves a big hole on the controversial topic of Internet radio. Sites such as Pandora and Live365 remain in a high-stakes standoff with SoundExchange, the company in charge of collecting the fees for artists and record companies. The reason that sites such as these were left out from the normal Internet radio agreement is because they allow users to select the music that they want to listen to, as opposed to simply listening to a pre-determined stream of songs.

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PDF ArchivesJune 2008: Upgrade Your Old Retail PC!

June 08 Maximum PC pdf - click to download!In the PDF archive of the June 2008 issue, you can find:

  • Upgrading your OEM Machine
  • The MaximumPC Guide to Home Automation
  • The Vista Defrag Challenge
  • How To: Create a Personal Internet Radio Station
  • Awesome Product Reviews, including the Alienware Area-51 m15x
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  • Rig of the Month
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How-TosHow To: Create a Custom Internet Radio Station

Your IT department won’t let you copy MP3s onto your work PC, and your iPod won’t hold your massive music collection, but you need to listen to tunes while you toil away at the day’s labor. What’s an audiophile to do? The answer is simple: Stream the collection you have stored on your rig at home to your PC at work.

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FROM THE ARCHIVEA New Kind of Radio

Too lazy to copy music to your MP3 player? Check out the new Slacker Radio.

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