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Pandora (And Other Internet Radio) Has Officially Been Saved
- vaksel 17y agoGood deal for Pandora, but I think they'll still lose users. Pandora One is $36/yr. Under this payment plan, they pretty much get most of their users that they'll keep onto a $12/yr plan. Because 40 hours of radio is nothing. But since most people hate paying, even if its $.99/mo, I think that'll cost them a ton of users. A free alternative will spring up quickly enough. Good opportunity for pirate bay here, Pirate Radio
- Batsu 17y agoI'm curious how those hours stack up as well - you could burn through that pretty quick in almost any office on a static IP.
- maneesh 17y agoYea, but the article mentions that only 10% of people already go over 40 hours. The most they'll lose because of this is 10%...and it honestly won't be that high.
- dcurtis 17y agoPandora isn't really about the music. It's about the song selection engine, which is amazing. Pirate radio could never come close.
- buugs 17y agoPandora was nice, I've moved on to other services I listen to thesixtyone most of the time because a large amount of it is generally good music and if not I skip it, for more mainstream I can find songs on grooveshark (don't know if that will get shut down or not). If I was ever going to pay for a radio like service it would have to be something like di.fm where pandora has variety and choice di.fm still has had enough quality that variety didn't matter to me.
- dmix 17y agoGrooveshark is an awesome service. Especially now that Youtube muted all the copyrighted songs. Its a good place to go when you want to find that one song or artist.
- christofd 17y agoGood that legislation is moving towards the direction of dealing with Internet services in a reasonable way (since Internet as main distro media pipeline cannot be stopped). Also good that they've figured out rates. Although, they're still higher than radio rates. Little steps...