{"id":17715,"date":"2013-02-28T13:42:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T18:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17715"},"modified":"2013-02-28T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T18:42:38","slug":"bad-news-for-those-of-us-who-love-free-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17715","title":{"rendered":"Bad News For Those Of Us Who Love Free Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Business Times<\/a> is reporting today that rising royalty costs will cause the free music<\/a> site Pandora<\/a> to limit free listening to 40 hours a month. That works out to a little more than one hour a day. Pandora is lobbying Congress<\/a> to pass the Internet Radio<\/a> Fairness Act which would change the way that royalties are paid to artists.<\/p>\n

Listeners will have alternatives to the 40-hours-a-month program–99 cents for unlimited listening for the remainder of the month, a subscription to Pandora One<\/a> for unlimited listening and no advertising.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

“The streaming business is obviously growing and booming. It’s north of a billion-dollar<\/span><\/a> business now,” Alex Luke, executive vice president<\/a> of A&R for the Capitol Label Group, whose artists include the Beatles<\/a>, Katy Perry<\/a> and Coldplay<\/a>, told RS (Rolling Stone) in a previous interview<\/a>. “But it’s still in its infancy.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

I enjoy Pandora and hope they will continue to provide free Internet music.\"Enhanced<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The International Business Times is reporting today that rising royalty costs will cause the free music site Pandora to limit free listening to 40 hours a month. That works out to a little more than one hour a day. Pandora … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5073,5071,695,5072,5070,5076,5074,5075],"class_list":["post-17715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beatles","tag-coldplay","tag-international-business-times","tag-internet-radio","tag-katy-perry","tag-pandora","tag-pandora-media","tag-pandora-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17717,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17715\/revisions\/17717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}