Comments on: Question about Yahoo and the Broadcasting Treaty http://www.librarianactivist.org/2006/07/22/question-about-yahoo-and-the-broadcasting-treaty/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:47:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Big Gates http://www.librarianactivist.org/2006/07/22/question-about-yahoo-and-the-broadcasting-treaty/#comment-3487 Big Gates Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:23:00 +0000 http://www.librarianactivist.org/2006/07/22/question-about-yahoo-and-the-broadcasting-treaty/#comment-3487 I make a practice of not listening to any jessica simpson songs, but I am tempted to buy this one just to bump up the #s. I don't know if I really trust Yahoo and I don't understand what is going on beyond corporate greed, but let's see. Yahoo is totally dependent on the internet for its profits, so maybe anything that gives them more traffic is good for Yahoo. I mean, as long as they don't own the content. they're not like a record company or a hardware maker. If the thing is of really crappy quality, people will still want to buy the record. mp3's sound ok but not terrific at 128kb, which is what you usually get as a default b/c it's small in size. Does that help? Also, let us consider that streaming and broadcasting are different from selling music tracks... there were lots of battles over internet radio a few years ago. People disagree whether it should be treated just like radio or not, but I am very ignorant on details. They put all those little indie and college web radio stations out of business. Yahoo owns some kind of <a href="http://launch.yahoo.com">streaming thing</a> that you can use like a personalized radio. Thanks to the record companies worries, the restrictions on those things are really weird. It lets you skip songs, but you can't go backwards in a playlist, or repeat a song, or choose a particular song by a certain artist, or play the same artist twice, stuff like that. Find it and play with it. I make a practice of not listening to any jessica simpson songs, but I am tempted to buy this one just to bump up the #s. I don’t know if I really trust Yahoo and I don’t understand what is going on beyond corporate greed, but let’s see. Yahoo is totally dependent on the internet for its profits, so maybe anything that gives them more traffic is good for Yahoo. I mean, as long as they don’t own the content. they’re not like a record company or a hardware maker. If the thing is of really crappy quality, people will still want to buy the record. mp3’s sound ok but not terrific at 128kb, which is what you usually get as a default b/c it’s small in size. Does that help?

Also, let us consider that streaming and broadcasting are different from selling music tracks… there were lots of battles over internet radio a few years ago. People disagree whether it should be treated just like radio or not, but I am very ignorant on details. They put all those little indie and college web radio stations out of business. Yahoo owns some kind of streaming thing that you can use like a personalized radio. Thanks to the record companies worries, the restrictions on those things are really weird. It lets you skip songs, but you can’t go backwards in a playlist, or repeat a song, or choose a particular song by a certain artist, or play the same artist twice, stuff like that. Find it and play with it.

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