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- sbader, on 10/11/2007, -1/+45Call your Congressional representatives in the Senate and ask them to force immediate action on the Internet Radio Equality Act and bring the bill to a vote. It is critical that their phones begin ringing off the hook starting early in the morning. If it's busy, please try again later.
- dweeb73, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25those greedy bastards...don't take my internet radio away!
- volanin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18http://savenetradio.org
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17The silence will be deafening.
This is clearly an attempt to kill off any form of competition before the laws are changed.
When the laws are changed, only the big labels will be left, and only they will have the power to implement web based music delivery. - t3hCyborg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17It's all these old fat bastards that are being lobbied to hell by the record industry. They don't know the first thing about the Internet, technology or anything, they just eat up all the ***** that the big-wigs tell them and they do as they're told. Such morons running our government.
- spunkmyer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Great .. corporate greed at it's best ladies and gentlemen.
Make sure you tell your kids about the day we used to listen to free Internet radio and the day it died. - DubbedOver, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12http://www3.capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/alert_9738601.html
Above is a link where you can punch in your zip code and get all the information you need to call.
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES RIGHT AWAY and urge them to support the Internet Equality Act. If they've already co-sponsored, thank them and ask them to fight to bring it to the floor for an immediate vote. - bjs3171, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8WOW. so they'd rather just lose the royalties completely when they all go out of business than just keep the rates lower. great business plan.
- k1down, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I wonder if anyone has pointed out that office workers in general will more than likely take a huge productivity cut. When etherbeat was rocking, I was rocking out product. Without my internet radio, I will take more smoke breaks, be less prone to be friendly with customers, have nothing to look forward to, and it will be that much harder to sit in front of my screen 8 hours a day 5 days a week.
Somehow, someway, our society has finally figured out how to ***** its own *****... not that I'm an *****... but you get my drift.
I think internet radio stations should flood Usenet with their whole music libraries. ***** a boycott. I haven't bought any major label ***** in 10 years anyways.
Go ***** yourself RIAA - civperc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I know, it's stupid, but that's the kind of people we're up against. Their greed will cause their eventual downfall.
- untzboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7We ain't gonna gonna take it! NO! We aint gonna take it! We ai...... wait, is that allowed?
- NeilM, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I don't want to seem like a pessimist... but...We're *****.
- FizixMan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Is there any way for foreigners (I'm Canadian) to contact Congressional representatives? Even if it's an internal American issue, it will have global repercussions (eliminating stations we listen to, setting precedents for other countries to follow suit) .
- sbader, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Unfortunately i don't think Pandora and other internet radio has a big enough user base to even dent itunes... I already called McCain and Kyl, freaking mccain just had a voicemail thing so i just left a message. I'll be a sobbing mess if i loose my Pandora. Then I'll go buy a pirate hat.
- MindTrigger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Yet another way our government is making life suck ass. The stupid old bastards running this country don't know the first thing about these technologies and how they are used. These retards sit on high, making decisions about ***** they can't even begin to fathom. Case In Point: US Foreign Policy.
I'm sick and tired of all these corrupt, greedy bastards cashing in on every freaking thing that comes up. They get richer, and the rest of us have to spend more to get less in return. What we need is about a half a million people firing up Shoutcast stations in protest. - miketrin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6They charge us for water, it wouldn't surprise me if we end up paying an air tax
- untzboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5If anyone takes my pandora away, all I can see is a white hot flash of fury. Success for the RIAA= MASSIVE MUSIC REVOLT. I have a plan, and it's better than calling. boycot music if we dont win. Apple will spaz because they wont get iPod sales, as will lots of people, and they will have no choice but to loosen the belt. As for me, im gonna go call Bachman, Klobucahr, and Coleman. Repeatedly. FOR TIM!
- DarkDragon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Congress, lets make a deal, you save net radio and I'll stop making that stupid "Congress is the opposite of Progress" joke. K?
- sbader, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Not all internet radio is the same as regular radio. Check out Pandora, it's radio 2.0.
- lewhich, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6I bet right now some idiot is trying to figure out how to charge us for Air.
To think of it, what we have in the US is monopolist, pro-big boys society not a capitalist one - KloroFormd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4It'd give us someone to sue for giving us dirty air and causing problems like asthma. I'm sure some people would be all for it.
- wiremonkeymommy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4called my congresspeople, and Nancy Pelosi (somafm.com is in her district), and will keep calling, long after the speakers go silent!!
- bloodmoney, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I can't remember the last time I bought a CD. These ***** can kill Internet radio, but their days of profiteering aren't too far behind.
- i208khonsu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3This is either going to completely kill American music culture as we know it, or inspire a renaissance of original music creators to steam their own music in order to bypass these rates.
Anticipate stories in the near future with musicians forming partnerships with music stations in an effort to keep distributing their music through channels who can't afford their rates. Soon after expect loop holes to be exploited into a new form of Payola that we can bitch at the RIAA for. - BobsYourUncle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Pessimism is the only response. It's becoming evident that there's really nothing to stop them from ***** us over in every possible way.
- Memitim, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yay, our hope now lies with Congress, the place where hope goes to die.
- ProvidenceCrow, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Dear Untzboy: As a representative for the recording industry and Twisted Sister you are being fined 20,000,000. The first 10,000,000 is for unauthorized usage of lyrics written by Dee Sneider and now owned by us. The second 10,000,000 is for copyright infringement because you have misquoted said lyrics. If you could make the check out to Cash we would greatly appreciate it.
- civperc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Fkn a...
- romek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Incredible... it is so obvious what is going on and yet people allow to get screwed once more... it's just a never ending story isn't it? RIAA, MPAA, Oil, Pharmaceuticals, Health Insurance, etc. Is this what democracy is about? I think we need to rename it to be be called Corporate Dictatorship (or just CD for short)... I mean let's be honest with ourselves. These Corporations think they are above the law by making their own laws. How about making Lobbying illegal? Wouldn't that be something eh? Simply incredible.
- DubbedOver, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4It's almost like a game of chicken, the RIAA obviously thinks that these radio stations can pay the fees associated with running them. If they can't and enough start dropping out maybe the price will go down - but most likely their lawyers have run the numbers and figured out that it's possible for them to pay these prices.
The RIAA will possibly destroy these companies, in an attempt to make more money from them.
I wish there was a way to see how many people have called and what they said (and what kind of responses to expect from the calls). - NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2How come the evil horrible stuff like (for corp gain over civilians) this makes it through and gets passed... while the good ideas good laws and good stuff barely makes it though the first level hardly ever... -_-
- techmaster, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I can't possibly think of a better way to drum up P2P downloads of music, than killing off internet radio sites like Pandora. Congratulations RIAA!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Not that I can think of. I mean, realistically, the deluge of phone calls should be enough to get something done (compared to silence); however, they have every right to totally ignore the request.
I, for one, encourage you to help, if you can. Thank you in advance for your global thinking. - combustion8, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2at least I still have p2p... just sucks cus I enjoy(ed) hearing new stuff the radio just wont play... nothing like hearing the same 10 songs over and over again all day long.
- MindTrigger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It makes me want to puke up my internal organs when I think about all the ways the government is in my ***** grill these days. Internet RADIO stations?? Of all the things our government needs to be focused on, how does this ***** even make the list???????? Answer: Corruption and greed, fueled by self-serving private corporations and organizations. We still don't have a solution for Social Security. We still don't have a solution for Health Care. We still don't have a solution for the War in Iraq. We still have underfunded schools all over the country. The list of actual important problems is huge.
How can you not think about the 2008 elections and realize it's all just a dog and pony show? These people we elect never change a damn thing. All they do is find new ways to make money for themselves and their friends/family. They spend most of their time in office making sure they are set for life after their public service is completed. How long has it been now since any major issue has been fixed? - MindTrigger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3You are a ***** moron. You have no clue what I do or have done. Now, why don't you take that USB powered crystal ball that you use to look into people's minds over the internet, and shove it up your loose cornhole. Have a nice day.
- k1down, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2People do still ride around in vans playing music. There are still smoky blue's taverns. You just gotta work to know about that ***** these days. That's how they keep all the ***** out of the taverns and not at the shows.
- sbader, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1For anyone in Arizona, Senator Kyl and Senator McCain have not yet taken a stance on this issue. Please keep calling. Senator Kyl's office sounded busier than the first time I called him.
- logomancer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"Oh cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones, it bones for thee." -Bender
- MattB123, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Maybe online radio stations should just all move their domains off shore. Like online gambling places did.
- Methanor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1My life will be left without the awesome inspiration of SOMAFM- Definitely 100 % of my music purchases over the last several years have been due to Rusty Hodges and his talented crew. Where the hell else am I going to find out about artists like Higher Intelligence Agency or Zero One? I am sooo f*ing steamed about this. This government runs afoul again and again. I've called all my representatives several times over the last several weeks- but talk about pissing in the wind. . . . I need that music.
- markman07, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/07/breaking-news-o.html
Maybe NOT! - TeatimeGrommit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This whole thing seems fishy to me. If they [internet radio companies] really won't make any money under the new royalty scheme, then they can simply close their doors for business before it takes effect. Good luck music industry collecting those back royalties from non-existent companies. If they just *say* they won't make any money, then they get a bunch of crying fanboys calling Congress.
It's like those baseball strikes that used to happen every ten minutes. Buncha rich guys vying for undeserved sympathy. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Enough already. Good freakin lord.
- khfn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The begining of Pirates of the Caribean 3 really denotes what the future holds to me.
- subterfu9e, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I live in Malaysia and pandora has already been taken away from me :S I'll miss the late nights I spent studying whilst discovering new music.
- Charron, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You represent Johnny Cash too?
- Trent28, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Time for pirate radio to come back!
- untzboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Rhapsody has a freaking giant base for IR, but remember, you've got a friend in Jimbo
- Gilart80, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I agree with this. I don't see Webcast radio dieing. I see it being moved to the hands of the major labels without them having to do any buyouts. I will miss my Launchcast.
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