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U.S. Broadband Growth Slowest in Eight Years

in News on August 18, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

The U.S. government broadband stimulus program couldn’t have come along at a better time. Leichtman Research Group said Monday that the country’s 19 largest cable and telephone providers added a net 634,000 broadband subscribers during the second quarter of 2009. That’s 29 percent fewer than were added in the same period a year ago and the lowest number of net additions of any quarter in the last eight years.
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What's Next? Marching Bands?

in News on May 22, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

It’s criminal. Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters worse, these radio stations often play the best, catchiest song off the album over and over until people get sick of it. Where is the incentive for people to go out and buy the album?” –RIAA [...]

What’s Next? Marching Bands?

in News on May 22, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

It’s criminal. Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters worse, these radio stations often play the best, catchiest song off the album over and over until people get sick of it. Where is the incentive for people to go out and buy the album?” –RIAA [...]