Musician David Lowery sues Spotify for “unlawfully” distributing music | Ars Technica "Spotify reproduces and/or distributes the Works despite its failure to identify and/or locate the owners of those compositions for payment or to provide them with notice of Spotify’s intent to reproduce and/or distribute the Works," Lowery's complaint alleges.

I'm not sure I agree with this. I'm about to buy my Plaid and Boards of Canada albums for the 3rd time because I don't like how iTunes is handling them. I want to re-rip them in ALAC now that HDDs are bigger. This despite the fact that this music is available on Spotify.

Although I have not purchased many of ZEDD's songs, I would not know about him without the auto-suggest feature of Pandora. I consider Pandora and Spotify to be music discovery services. I do worry about the day when CD versions are not available because I still think that AAC sounds like sh*t, especially at the nitrates used by streaming services.

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Pandora might lose all music recorded before 1972 due to copyright infringement | VentureBeat | Media | by Tom Cheredar - At issue is that songs recorded before 1972 — which includes works from The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, and Fleetwood Mac — don’t fall under federal copyright protection.

Well, maybe we don't need to discover that music since we already know about it.

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Apple announces iTunes Radio for iOS 7, Mac, PC & Apple TV: "iTunes Radio will be part of Apple's forthcoming iOS 7 mobile operating system, but it will also be accessible on Macs, Windows PCs, and even the Apple TV set-top box."

There are probably a lot of unhappy people at Pandora right now, but let's remember that not everything that Apple does in the music space pans out. The social network that was built on top of iTunes comes to mind. Can you see the future? Not I.

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Live From Pandora's Headquarters, It's Saturday Night! - Tricia Duryee - Media - AllThingsD
What happens when Pandora goes down? Apparently, it improvises. At least that’s how the crew at “Saturday Night Live” imagined it last night in a skit about the Internet radio company. The show’s host and musical guest, Bruno Mars, played the role of a Pandora intern, who steps up to impersonate a string of artists when the power goes down at the company’s headquarters. "

I mostly listen to Pandora for the comedy.

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