
The part that's particularly stupid is how USA Today refers to this as a "victory" for online broadcasters. Their logic is that since the newly established royalty rate is half of the original proposal, it's a victory for the broadcasters. Of course, the new figure doesn't challenge the retroactive payment proposal, so effectively it means the average net-radio station owes one million dollars instead of two. Yay for AOL Time Warner! They've just moved one step closer to total domination of ALL media!
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Christopher Bird at 2:27 AM
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