Thursday, March 8, 2007

More on the future of internet radio...

This issue is absolutely serious. It really hurts when the so called democratic environments like the US Congress (which by the way claims that it is a government unit of the people) decide in favor of the corporations who rely on unbelievable lobbying power.

To learn more about the issue, here is an informative blog post.

Here is the directory of the Congressional Representatives by zip-code. If these matters are any kind of interest to you, please send them a fax or a letter, you can find examples at another post on the issue by Tim Westergen the owner of Pandora.

"RIAA's new royalty rates will kill online radio!!

The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has recently released a revised fee schedule for internet radio. Left unchanged, these rates will end internet radio, period. The RIAA has effectively convinced this federal committee to establish rates that make online radio a non-viable business.

It's an utterly ridiculous ruling that renders any form of internet radio non-economic. We are continuing in the belief that sanity will return as everyone involved, including the 50 million avid online radio listeners, realize just how outrageous this is.

You can probably tell by this post..."

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