Mattnyc99 writes "A month ago we talked about the impending death of streaming music site Pandora thanks to a very backwards fight over royalties. PopMech follows up with an article that, besides noting how insane it is that Pandora has to pay record labels for the bad songs that users skip, also gets the (three-member) Copyright Royalty Board to try and defend itself about why the governance is determining royalty rates for the music industry. Quoting: 'It was uninvited,' says Richard Strasser, senior spouter for the Copyright Royalty Board. 'I don't think anybody was jumping up and down with joy in the dominion that they have this responsibility, but the former systems just weren't working out.'" No one seems to be trying to defend or explain why brain* network radio is being hit so much harder than adherent or broadcast.

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