[Terry L Smith]

This is why, so many years now, I have been a paying subscriber to Live365. None of these hassles, and all the quality present much earlier than millenial brain wave stuff like “Iheart”.

[Boogieman]

Convenient how the government decides that FEES should increase based on inflation, but when it comes time to increase Social Security payments, etc, the government can’t find any inflation at all to be worried about!

[Swordmaker]

The federal Copyright Royalty Board has ruled that ad-supported internet radio companies such as Pandora must pay higher royalty rates to artists and record labels. This is good for the artists and the record labels but will hit the services hard in the pocket book. On the other hand, it will be good for subscriber services such as Apple Music. -- PING!

Pinging dayglored, Shadow Ace, and ThunderSleeps for their attention.

Apple Music will benefit from Copyright Royalty Board ruling.
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[SamAdams76]

I've been happily paying $9.99 a month for Apple Music since my three-month trial ran out. This is one of the best deals out there. I can listen to and download unlimited amounts of music on multiple devices for just ten dollars a month.

Yes, I know all that downloaded music becomes useless once I stop paying the monthly fee. But how is that any different from the Netflix and HBO model? You stop paying your subscription, you lose access to the content. Makes sense to me.

If I really want to own something, I'll purchase it but I've collected so much music over the years, I'll never have time to listen to it all again. My music tastes has evolved over the years. I'll never again play those Kiss and Black Sabbath records I so ardently collected during the 1970s. Yet I purchased them then and they are useless to me now.

For $9.99 a month, I can delete and replace my music as my tastes continue to change. That's a pretty fair deal.

[minnesota_bound]

1 million plays x .17 cents = $170,000
Example: ABC Radio Network has approximately 4,600 affiliate stations reaching about 109 million listeners.

4 plays a day x .17 cents x 4600 stations x 365 days comes to over $1.1 million a year.