Let’s be intellectually honest, though. Equating Pandora plays to satellite or FM plays is also spin – Pandora is a much more personalized platform. Each song is closer to being user-chosen than on radio platforms, so each play is ostensibly more valuable to the listener.
Overall, what I don’t understand about this whole kind of argument is this: What happens if what people want to pay is less than what it costs to make the content that they want to consume? Books and some kinds of music often require little overhead… a creator could cut costs and make something cheaply enough to profit from. But movies or quality TV… I think that’s often more expensive to content creators than the viewers are willing to shell out.
