Royalties Increase May Cause Yahoo and AOL to Abandon Web Radio

[jcolletta275]

Actually, the RIAA has a way of dealing with sites like that, as well as pirate streamers from abroad, and they will if they become significant enough to actually be worth their time.

And the RIAA will lose that fight the exact same way they're losing their "Internet piracy" crusade.

They've already convinced many universities to "voluntarily" block file sharing sites.

And college students with half a brain and some computer knowledge have continuously kept one step ahead of those blocks.

It would be nothing for them to convince ISPs to block a few IPs.

You must have missed that backlash against Comcast when they were alleged to have been slowing down and blocking connections on an IP basis over supposed file-sharing cases. If you don't think that was a test case, you're fooling yourself. The RIAA would never be able to get away with it. Even if they tried, customers would just go to another ISP.

Think it can't be done? Most already block port 25 to keep their networks from being used for spamming.

And we all know how effective that is today.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the RIAA and MPAA used threats of lawsuits and other repercussions to get pirate sites blocked.

And with each pirate site that gets blocked, ten more will pop up to take it's place.

Think about your ISP. Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, Verizon, etc. They all have a vested interest in keeping the major content providers happy.

They have more of an interest in something else: having customers. You know, the ones that actually make them money?