Pandora’s 2016 Royalty Bill Just Increased by $100 Million…

What does a ‘compromise’ costs these days, anyway? About a hundred million…
Instead of lowered recording royalty rates, the deeply-feared US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has now raised Pandora’s streaming royalty rates a considerable notch.  Specifically, Pandora and other streaming radio providers will be required to pay 17 cents per 100 song streams for every recording for non-subscribers, an amount that doesn’t even cover remaining pub