New RIAA radio tax
p2pnet news view Radio | RIAA:- With the, “ever increasing royalty rates pushed by the RIAA in the form of its ’spin-off’ Sound Exchange, and codified by the Copyright Royalty Board (for whom I still do not understand how anyone can justify its existence) in the background, Sirius XM has simply added a $2 RIAA tax to everyone’s monthly bills to help pay for the new performance royalties,” says TechDirt, going on »»»
Yup, because the RIAA and its members haven’t been able to come up with a business model that works, they get the courts to tax you for listening to your satellite radio (on top of what you already pay and what they already pay to songwriters and publishers) and that gets passed on to you.
Just imagine what will happen if the RIAA gets its wish and gets to add a similar tax to terrestrial radio stations as well.
Adds the post, “If you thought radio was chock full of commercials before …”
No kidding.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
TechDirt – Sirius XM Passes RIAA Tax On To Consumers, August 19, 2009
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August 20th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Go figure. Parasites can’t get the consumers to cough up enough cash for their shitty music, so they milk as much money as they need to survive out of other venues.
August 20th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
how else do you think the RIAA comes up with cash to payoff politicians to do their bidding?
August 20th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Damn….I was going to get Sirius at one point, too.
Well, not any more.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Their getting so desperate and out of control. It doesn’t matter what they do anymore. I don’t want a goddamn thing they have to offer. The best music is not in their hands anyway, and I’d like to hope that radio comes to their senses and starts playing more indie and unsigned stuff and tells them where to go with their manufactured, regurgitated crap. The future for music will be bright once these assholes are dead and buried.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Just don’t buy the service. If people continue to pay for this stuff after raise and raise of the prices and such a decline in quality, then frankly they deserve the crap for the high price. You cannot help those who don’t want to be helped
August 20th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I want to know what the fuck they do with all this money coming in. It really doesn’t seem like the artists are getting paid as much as they claim…
August 20th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
People pay for radio? Well I guess they do it for the TV so why not.
But they must spend alot of time in their cars? (heck i turn my radio off most days)
August 24th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Wanna bet that all the money collected will be retained a few labels and that no one can figure out how the money is distributed and why?
Just see what happens with radio/tv/bar/mall/hall… royalties? No one can figure out the system and the many forms of slicing the money so that only a few music publishers wind up with and keep almost all the money.
After all, the foxes are guarding the chicken coop. RIAA is just another fox.
February 18th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
The more I hear about this performance tax the more I am perplexed. Without the radio to promote the performers there would be no performance. Haven’t any of you seen the bio’s of many recording stars, how they hawked radio stations to get play time? Or, talked to dishonored stars who angered the public and were brought down for lack of air time. The radio (the media) can make or break you – just look at American Idol. I think the recording industry should pay the radio stations to promote their clients. For greed’s sake don’t bite the hand that feeds you.