Comments on: 9 radio stations in bribery probe http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7869 p2pnet.net offers not-your-lamescream news on movies music digital media P2P peer-to-peer TV television file sharing freedom of speech open source product news Wifi mobiles company news games video games game consoles security marketing DRM Internet radio web radio Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:04:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7869#comment-33953 Reader's Write Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:15:09 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7869#comment-33953 Most artists and songwriters have not realized this but payola makes the competition field among artists and songwriter not level, to the disadvantage of the better ones and the majority. Payola favors the worst artists and songwriters and we see the result: Most music peddled by the cartels varies from worthless to worse and damage the reputation of music as a form of entertaiment. Wake up artists/songwriters. And where is the so called composer associations? In bed with the cartel. Rafael Venegas http://www.gvenegas.com Most artists and songwriters have not realized this but payola makes the competition field among artists and songwriter not level, to the disadvantage of the better ones and the majority.

Payola favors the worst artists and songwriters and we see the result: Most music peddled by the cartels varies from worthless to worse and damage the reputation of music as a form of entertaiment.

Wake up artists/songwriters.

And where is the so called composer associations? In bed with the cartel.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7869#comment-33898 Reader's Write Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:25:37 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7869#comment-33898 "Station owner representatives who were reached for comment denied that payola had taken place at their companies." Bunch of lying Bastards!!!! They should RIP the station's a new one!!! No fines/ pull them off the air for a period of time say 6 mos to a year!!!! Start doing things like this and you WILL stop payola!!!! “Station owner representatives who were reached for comment denied that payola had taken place at their companies.” Bunch of lying Bastards!!!! They should RIP the station’s a new one!!! No fines/ pull them off the air for a period of time say 6 mos to a year!!!! Start doing things like this and you WILL stop payola!!!!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7869#comment-33890 Reader's Write Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:52:35 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7869#comment-33890 Has anyone thought that will the successful conclusion to bringing two of the four major cartel members to task over payolla, that it hasn't affected what is still being played on the radio? The same songs are still being played the same way, inspite of the supposed successful ending of the two in playing with payolla. The reason I bring this up is that we the listening public aren't seeing any difference in the playlist from those stations. Why? Isn't that the purpose of payolla, to affect what's aired? So how is it that with two of the major players out of the picture this is still happening? Simply, payolla is alive and well and another method is being used to continue the same practice without the middle man to pay. Instead of buying the air time through a third party, they are now paying enomorous sums for the playlists themselves. You can't tell me that 2 or 3 hours of secretaries time to create a list is worth thousands of dollars a month. The payolla survives through the buying of a product (the future proposed playlist at an inflated value) and may look legal on the surface. You and I know that can't be the case if those same playlists are so high in price as to have no real meaning in either the returns from the paper, electronic file, secretaries time, or station programmers' time. It is merely a way to continue to pay for play and continues to be rampant within the broadcast industry. Hence the same old same old. Has anyone thought that will the successful conclusion to bringing two of the four major cartel members to task over payolla, that it hasn’t affected what is still being played on the radio? The same songs are still being played the same way, inspite of the supposed successful ending of the two in playing with payolla.

The reason I bring this up is that we the listening public aren’t seeing any difference in the playlist from those stations. Why? Isn’t that the purpose of payolla, to affect what’s aired?

So how is it that with two of the major players out of the picture this is still happening? Simply, payolla is alive and well and another method is being used to continue the same practice without the middle man to pay. Instead of buying the air time through a third party, they are now paying enomorous sums for the playlists themselves. You can’t tell me that 2 or 3 hours of secretaries time to create a list is worth thousands of dollars a month. The payolla survives through the buying of a product (the future proposed playlist at an inflated value) and may look legal on the surface. You and I know that can’t be the case if those same playlists are so high in price as to have no real meaning in either the returns from the paper, electronic file, secretaries time, or station programmers’ time. It is merely a way to continue to pay for play and continues to be rampant within the broadcast industry.

Hence the same old same old.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7869#comment-33850 Reader's Write Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:54:05 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7869#comment-33850 How many internet users will they have to blindly sue to make that money back. How many internet users will they have to blindly sue to make that money back.

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