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In the future, you'll happily stay on hold ot hear the end of a song.
Broadband ISPs would have a fairly easy time monitoring a given user's musical tastes. Through Gator-esque spyare apps, or simple packet sniffing, they coudl easily developa musical profile for your account.
These profiles
are then sold to a company who maintains digital music channels (like Cable TV DMX) and provides these audio channels to companies that have huge phone trees. By linking your ISP customer record and your account at Service With Huge Phone Tree, the middle man music provider can make sure you are allways put on hold to a channel you will find least objectionable. It might not match your real MP3 Playlist, but it won't be musak Barry Manilow.
Better Business Bureau
http://www.bbb.org/library/music.asp
[thumbwax, Oct 04 2004]
BMI - over 1/2 the songs on radio...
http://bmi.com/lice...nhold%5Fanswers.asp
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ASCAP
http://www.ascap.com/licensing/about.html
[thumbwax, Oct 04 2004]
SESAC Licensing
http://sesac.com/licensing/licensing1.asp
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Not really, UnaBubba. In the US now, businesses that play music on hold already have to make monthly payments to ASCAP for copyright licensing purposes. That would be no different for personalized music. |
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I'll tell you what - if they truly personalized it, I'd call up just to be on hold. |
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"Thanks for calling American Express, snarfyguy. All of our representitives are busy serving other clients. Meanwhile, we invite you to listen to this unreleased Velvet Underground recording of "Waiting For my Man" from the Agora Ballroom, Cleveland Ohio, November 4, 1966. |
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"After that, stay tuned for rare unreleased demos from Black Flag, The Soft Machine and The Fall." |
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What should really happen is hold music
should get together with iTunes (or some
other service) and that way you could buy
the music you hear. Then record
companies could use it as advertising and
keep it free for the rest of us. |
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