Copyright tribunal slaps Pandora with 20 percent rate increase

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40 pointspavornyoh3 comments

"Slaps" is a funny way to put it. The rates are for anyone, and were up for negotiation; it's not like they would have gone down, given the growth in streaming.

The market reacted well (eventually) to the slap, in any case.

Why wouldn't the rates have gone down with growth? A smaller piece of a much bigger pie tends to be more over all.

Because streaming isn't the pie, it's just a piece.

As streaming cannibalizes other, more profitable, pieces of the revenue pie, the copyright holders want a larger share of the streaming portion to offset those loses.

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