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Premium
join:2002-09-13
MA
| Sample of things to come Welcome to the evolution of broadcasting royalties.
As digital streaming becomes more commonplace, so does content-providers' knowledge of who/how many people are listening/watching what.
There's no question that smaller Internet Radio stations are being flushed here, but it also seems that the larger operations are guinea pigs for streaming, one-to-one royalty rates. | |
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DJEd
@verizon.net
| Affects More Than Internet Radio Broadcasters The new rates affect more than just internet radio broadcasters.
The way the new rates are written, it will affect ANYONE who streams - this includes Sirius/XM internet streams and Terra Radio Stations that stream.
There there are those companies that provide streaming services, web services, hardware (SanDisk has a cool wi-fi Internet Radio player coming out this month) and broadcast software - all affected.
This is more than a hobbiest/non-commercial internet radio broadcaster issue.
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batterup
I Can Not Tell A Lie.
Premium
join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ
clubs: | Read a book. This is one group of greedy bastards fighting another group of greedy bastards. | |
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disgruntled dj
@comcast.net
| ooh bother  I work for a station and we all do this as a hobby... we have roughly about 135000 listeners a month..This is insane.. Our station makes no revenue.. We actually have to pay to broadcast.. we sell little ads to very small people like ourselves.. ITs so unfair ,, unjust,, and simply unwarented.. I could see if we were making money off what we played..but gawd!!.... im so disgusted.. i feel like shooting a congressman!!! | |
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nowayjose
@speakeasy.net
| I could care less I listen to Swedish, German, British, and other internet radio stations. Nothing RIAA can touch. So I could care less. I also can't remember the last time I bought a CD or an MP3. With Sirius in all of my cars and mentioned internet radio via Shoutcast I don't need anyting else.
RIAA type of organizations tried same tactics in some of the other countries and ended up getting slapped big time by higher courts. For RIAA it is only a matter of time before it discredits itself. | |
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coxta
Ultramundane
Premium
join:2000-07-15
LALALALALALA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| Association of Internet Broadcasters? You'll find that many commercial radio broadcast stations, which the vast majority do streaming, pay in aggregate by contract for the music rights, thus the costs can be considerably lower. I would suggest that the Internet broadcasters join together and form a coalition and negotiate as a group.
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| newageguy
join:2007-03-11
Chicago, IL
| Re: Association of Internet Broadcasters? Good point. This happened in 2002. A special interest group calling themselves "Voice of Webcasters" negotiated directly with SoundExchange. That resulted in the Small Webcaster Settlement Act. Only problem -- the VOW was a temporary outfit and disbanded as soon as the dust settled.
However, several streaming media companies have seen what's at stake and are finally gearing up to form a new industry trade association to combat this injustice.
»www.smallwebcaster.org/ | |
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newageguy
join:2007-03-11
Chicago, IL
| The warning-signs were ignored What's interesting is that Webcasters were forewarned about the possibility for a rate surge months in advance on KurtHanson's site, David Oxenford's legal blog, the SHOUTcast forum, and the SpacialAudio forum. Yet most people didn't even heed these warnings. It was just "business as usual".
Now suddenly everyone is up in arms about the issue -- acting as if nobody could fathom such an outcome. Ummm, yeah right.
»www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/···ex.shtml
»forums.winamp.com/showthread.php···number=1 | |
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