Pandora radio on deathbed?

I used to listen to Pandora every day, several times a month I would click through to Amazon and buy a couple of CD's I would have never considered before.

The music industry has definitely lost. This closure is serving no-one

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HM: Hey Michael, I don't know about the UK rules, but the US legistlature DID pass the bill favorably for Pandora -- restraining royalty rates to an affordable level. As I read the bill, this is not unfavorable to musicians whose music is being used. So score one for the good guys. And here's toward watching how music keeps getting out from those who make it to those who listen.

I would hate to see Pandora go, and I would expect that many artists would, too. I love to listen for hours while on my computer at work. As others stated, I have found new artists I would never have heard anywhere else! And I have then purchased their CD's (OK,I'm still a dinosaur)and I have sought out their live shows. I sometimes have to keep myself away from Pandora for brief periods because it was costing me so much in music purchases! :-)

Long live internet radio!!

Go for the economist, that's the only hope. Surely he must realize that while the old Malthusian economics of scarcity were a farce from the start, the same is not necessarily true of modern enlightened economics, and unlike the other two, there is nothing about his world-view to preclude the influence of the web.

As for Pandora, it was long ago shut down for those of us outside the US. Why else did you think we stopped buying your new artists' records?

HM: Uh, whose world view -- Malthus's?

I'm sorry Pandora -- which has realized a good idea -- has gotten/is getting shut down anywhere. Of all the instances out there of alleged or proven intellectual property rights infringements, streaming web radio seems (from my limited research) pretty victim-free. And pushing new media genies working their way out of the bottle seems fruitless. Terrestrial radio will survive or not, same as print newspapers, on the basis of the medium's own adaptation, not by suppressing new forms of info dissemination.

There are probably a lot of reasons "[you] stopped buying [our] new artists' records." If indeed "you" did.You may have your own artists now (cf my post on BBC Jazz Awards), you may be past (or not up to) new artists, and their works may not be getting to you through old channels of distribution. Anyway, if it's so new artists' aren't being bought (in Canada? in the UK? Europe? Middle East? Japan? Brazil?) is that more noticeably true of exploratory jazz-derived efforts than of pop-rap-hip-hop or contemporary classical music? And is it a bad thing?

It's hard to understand the logic of shutting down Pandora through such usurious rate hikes. Pandora's business model is to link listeners directly to iTunes or Amazon so they can purchase music they haven't heard before. I've purchased all kinds of music that I hadn't previously discovered.

It has been more than a year now since Pandora was shut out of Canada -- and other non-US locations too, I assume -- so it's no surprise that the powers-that-be finally have managed to do the same in the States.

One step forward, two steps back.