The Music Copyright Enforcers

Post date: Aug 24, 2010 1:52:2 AM

Referred to this article from Lucas Gonze's blog at http://gonze.com/blog/ , who in turn referenced the NY Times at

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/magazine/08music-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=streaming%20downloading&st=cse&scp=1

Somewhere in page 5, quote Richard Conlon, Vice President of New Media at BMI,

"BMI is rosy about the future. According to Conlon, who spends a lot of time watching how 8-to-15-year-olds use technology, downloading is out, streaming is in. And guess what? Streaming pays — just like radio. Legally the climate is good too. In May, a federal court found LimeWire, one of the few remaining big free peer-to-peer file-sharing services, guilty of inducing copyright infringement. The company could be fined as much as a billion dollars."

BMI's raison d'etre is collecting fees where fees need to be collected. If anybody knows where it's at, they will. "Downloading is out, streaming is in. And guess what? Streaming pays!" Nuff said.