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1. Comment - SoundExchange: Is Microsoft Backing Internet Radio in Royalties Fight?

   (May 2, 2007 - 8:53 AM)

   Watching SoundExchange - themselves created by, funded by, staffed by, and more or less still run by the RIAA - point the finger and accuse savenetradio of "represent(ing) mega-corporate interests" - it boggles the mind. They've entered the Twilight Zone of spin.
   
   It would almost be amusing, since they shelled out money for a high-priced DC PR firm to handle this. But since they're probably using funds that were collected for artist royalties ... it's just depressing.
   
   Remember, also: It's not like those 2,000 record labels and 270 companies /signed up/ with SoundExchange to get represented - that's just what fell out of the RIAA/SE's long-running lobbying effort to represent everybody, everywhere, all the time.
   
   All that, and they can't even distribute more than 60% of the money they take in. They're a crap organization, with crap policy, and if the artists can't realize that they're getting the shaft from all this, then, well, they'll continue to get the shaft. They're just going to lose a major, major distribution outlet in the process.