What if lack of net neutrality dictated your playlist?

Jun 14th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

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I honestly hadn’t thought about this until now… If the record industry, which has used payola and co-op dollars for decades to squeeze small artists out of radio playlists and off of record store shelves, could actually pay cable and phone companies to keep web surfers off of MySpace, iTunes, and CDBaby, what would happen to the process of discovering new music?

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