save-internet-radio.com — Earlier today the new royalty rates for streaming radio stations were announced. A station with 1000 listeners will now have to pay $150,000 a year in royalties. This effectively forces independent webcasters off the air. The worst part: the rates are effective retroactively to the beginning of 2006! Help us get this senseless policy overturned!
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qforqMar 4, 2007
Personally(I own an internet radio station) do not like it when people connect to my station solely to record songs. This uses up our bandwidth and it costs ME money. Software that rips internet radio stations can affect total bandwidth usage because they send users to your station when you play that specific song. It's quite annoying..
bitfreakMar 4, 2007
What a bunch of jacka$$es. I haven't really thought about downloading or P2P before now, but this RIAA Nazi behavior is making me think twice about it. So this morning I installed a client of my choice (free) and am at well over 1GB of 'net new music (free). Obscure stuff mostly, things that weren't deemed Britney Spears-ish enough to keep in stock at Target. Stuff I certainly couldn't get at Best Buy or any of the other homogenized bottom feeder spoon-fed music outlets.Thanks RIAA, you've really opened my eyes. Every CD I buy from this day forward will be either from a local used CD outlet or from Amazon, USED ONLY. I did buy some digital MP3 yesterday from Candyrat. No RIAA BS there, not one red cent to those bastards. I'm more than happy to pay the ARTIST for their music./rude RIAA
legendarysockMar 4, 2007
These RIAA bitches need to get the chicken heads out of their asses and see the world realistically. For f**k's sakes, they tried suing AllofMP3 for trillions of dollars. Are they high, or just incredibly stupid?
lkratzMar 5, 2007
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number1badboyMar 15, 2007
To fix the music industry:Allow music to be freely shared.Artists would have to actually perform live to earn money.It would take away the megabucks from the industry, cut out all these crappy talent-show TV programmes and dramatically improve the sincerety of those we hear via the media!
tand0mMar 17, 2007
well the biggest petition out there to stop these retarded royalty rate hikes is: <a class="user" href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveinternetradio/">http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveinternetradio/</a>all the big online radio sites are trying to get signatures and i'm sure digg can help a lot!do your part to save online radio :)
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