Net radio negotiations hit snag over DRM


NET RADIO NEGOTIATIONS HIT SNAG OVER DRM
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Anne Broache]
A new spat appears to be brewing between the Digital Media Association (DiMA), a lobby group representing large Webcasters like Pandora, Yahoo, RealNetworks and AOL, and SoundExchange, the group that collects and lobbied for the new payments on behalf of musicians and record labels. The issue? Whether Webcasters should be required to cloak their streams in technologies designed to prevent "streamripping" as part of an agreement to cap the administrative fees they owe to SoundExchange.
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