Mediagazer: Pandora's Music Fees Are Huge! And Not That Bad. (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

11:35 AM ET, February 13, 2011

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Pandora's Music Fees Are Huge! And Not That Bad. — After Pandora filed to go public Friday, some people were taken aback to learn the company was spending half of its revenues on “content acquisition"-the royalties it pays the owners of all the music the service streams. — They shouldn't be.

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Joe Coscarelli / Runnin' Scared:

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Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:

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