di.fm — Since the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board recently made a determination of the royalty rates Internet Radio webcasters must pay, more and more webcasters are saying they will not be able to continue streaming unless something is urgently done. Here's the take on this from Digitally Imported Radio (DI.fm, SKY.fm) and what you can do to help webcasters.
Mar 12, 2007 View in Crawl 4
j4k3Mar 12, 2007
This is bulls**t! Who the f**k do the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board think they are? The Internet should remain free from all this crap!
weareallzombiesMar 13, 2007
The same thing is true for my father, even. For the longest time he hadn't been interested in buying new CDs, he just didn't have the energy to go to the record store any more. Then, when he got an iPod to transfer all of his old CDs over, he started listening to DI.fm's ambient stations throughout the day. Now, nearly two years after purchasing the iPod and listening to netradio like DI.fm, RadioIoAmbient, and HBR1, he's purchased upwards of $3000 worth of new music that he would have never known about prior to this -- artists like Shpongle, Tripswitch, Deep Dive Corp, so on and so forth.Perhaps the reason they're more concerned with getting fees from netradio is more the fact that a large portion of these stations play music THEY find interesting, music that's out of the normal RIAA-approved boxes, music from a decent cross-section of indie record labels. Every time someone buys a song or an album from one of those companies, that's money that's not going into the RIAA's pocket. No wonder they're trying to stifle it.
skytrancerMar 14, 2007
If they close DI, I'm gonna kill'em all! Because then we've got no place anymore where we can listen to normal music. With all those f**kin' laws they're simply about to prescribe us what to listen and what not. Who gave them right for this? I can still decide it by myself, what I listen to and where, and they must shut up their f**kin' mouths! Motherf**kers.
aharoniMar 17, 2007
Seeing how most of the trance music is created outside of the US, Digitally Imported should simply go offshore and stop playing the music of American artists. It wouldn't be that much of a blow to their play list size anyways.
ddongbapMar 18, 2007
As someone said, I thought that DI would operate more outside of the US, since the bulk of the music is created outside of US shores?
chanchaiMar 20, 2007
How can I help you from out of USA ?
aseroneMar 30, 2007
No way.. Can't loose all the great alternative radio stations.. f**k!
soulrhyderMar 31, 2007
ya nee governments and there moneymaking schemes at least give us cybercrawlers some peace of mind ass oles we came here to get away from u guys in the first place. LEAVE US ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thomasg1Apr 2, 2007
This is all about the money, and it's the only thing the greedy BAST*RDS understand. The best way to fight back is to act like a capitalist. My prediction:1 - There will be no reaction from anyone in Government and the royalty plan will go into effect as scheduled.2 - Some entrepneurs will realize the money to be made, and will open several hosting servers for media overseas. They will offer an anonymous webcasting client for uploading content, and people will startup pirate stations around the world.3 - After several years of NO royalties (or taxes) from this medium, the RIAA, SoundExchange, and the Government will propose more bogus legislation intended to bring everyone back to the table for a "reasonable" royaly plan.4 - Too late!!! Everybody's now happy with the new way of doing things!!!!By the way...how will this plan affect Sirius and XM who also broadcast on the web?????
skystrifeApr 15, 2007
This is horrific. Gotta wonder how long podcasters are going to be safe. I'd be just like the RIAA to make THEM pay for content THEY make.Gotta LOVE the idiocy of our government, huh?
raymmcApr 20, 2007
ok, afrer some bloody beers. Come on grow up for f**k sake, I love this station. I really don't want it to f**king dissapear.I also don'twant my rights as a creative human being to be taken away.I choose my capiatlist friends very very carefully. Do I have to panic? cus that aint good and I feel this must have been coming for a good while, whats the plan DI? help me help you? give me a wavefront I can be part of that works.ta