 | | Fax Tubes The whole fax infrastructure of Capitol Hill was jammed for two days. You see, a fax machine isn't a truck that you can dump stuff on. It's.... It's a series of tubes! 
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united state | Re: Fax Tubes And Capital Hill isn't a group you can just dump common sense on. It's....it's a series of boobs. | |
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| |  ShamayimI already have a Messiah.Premium
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Milwaukee, WI | *SNAP*!!! Third-degree burn. Nice. | |
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| |  StreetSpiritThis spot reserved for Xenu.Premium
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| said by MIABye:And Capital Hill isn't a group you can just dump common sense on. It's....it's a series of boobs. Heh, sadly for our nation and general common sense, but very true  | |
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|  LinklistPremium
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kudos:5 | said by Jason Levine:The whole fax infrastructure of Capitol Hill was jammed for two days. The linked story talks about using email instead of faxes to communicate with Congress. Well, what are you waiting for? Get to them faxes!! You may even try one of these newfangled systems for communicating with congresspersons—I'm told this "E" mail works pretty good. But that is wrong. When lobbying Congress, the emails are not read. A system looks for keywords and the Congresscritters are presented with a stat that says so many emails wrote about "internet radio" and so many about another subject, etc. Faxes are actually read by some assistant and then a summary is presented to the Congresscritter. Faxes have more impact and visibility than does email. Phone calls to the local or Washington office have even higher visibility.
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| |  marigoldsGainfully employed, finallyPremium,MVM
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kudos:2 | Re: Fax Tubes Better yet, there is still enough time to actually write and send a letter (write your own though for more impact).
I highly recommend phone calls too. Phone calls let them understand the person behind the passionate interest. | |
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| |  batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ | said by Linklist: Phone calls to the local or Washington office have even higher visibility. A hand written snail mail letter has the most impact. e-mail campaigns from special interests can generate hundreds of thousands of e-mails. | |
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Des Plaines, IL | Re: Fax Tubes said by batterup:A hand written snail mail letter has the most impact. e-mail campaigns from special interests can generate hundreds of thousands of e-mails. And a hand-dialed phone call does even better than that, since the staffer has to listen to you. Even letters can "get lost" without anybody ever seeing the message. But if you inspire a young staffer (who probably relies on the Internet for a lot of things), then you have a voice in the office repeating your message several times. | |
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Des Plaines, IL | said by Jason Levine:You see, a fax machine isn't a truck that you can dump stuff on. It's.... It's a series of tubes! So is the Internet. It's just that fax is still using vacuum tubes!  | |
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| | Way to go Congress OMG they DO listen once in a while! This must be their one time a year to represent the people instead of just themselves. | |
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Middleboro, MA | Re: Way to go Congress They got a whitehouse to win.... | |
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Perry, OH | a good response With any luck, congress will be more responsive to the people's wishes over lobbyists.
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| | | Re: a good response Hear, hear.
Hopefully internet radio will be saved. | |
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Lincolnshire, IL | Re: Status of House and Senate Bills It takes a lot of inertia to get a bill like this moving, but I'm hopeful. The back payment delay gives it a little time, but it would really help if musicians join in the email/fax brigade to blunt the RIAA's stance that internet radio does nothing for artists. | |
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Annapolis, MD | Re: Status of House and Senate Bills Yeah like the RIAA cares what the artists think or want. lol
I have emailed and snail mailed my reps. I also plan to send them some reminder correspondence to try to distract them from remembering they are a boob. | |
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kudos:2 | woot! Glad I contributed! My three snail-mail letters, as well as every other letter/e-mail/fax/phone call, contributed!
w00t!
The fight isn't over yet though, but we are making headway!
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Stepford, CA | Don't Get Used to It Given that this is the second time in five years the diaRIAA has reared its fugly feces-ridden head and attempted to not only stick its hand in the pocket of Internet radio, but hijack the entire bank account in one fell swoop and otherwise crush the industry, I strongly suspect this will become standard operating procedure. So all involved on the behalf of streaming audio shouldn't pat its collective self on the back too vigorously.
Apparently, one of the more intelligent, overgrown cum shots at the diaRIAA realized that revenue generation by lawsuit can only go so far and that eventually, a new way to suck the blood of puppies and kittens must be deployed. Strangling internet radio by taking 300% of its revenue was a beautiful way to supplement the litigation revenue.
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Mullica Hill, NJ | Re: Don't Get Used to It sadly if both bills dont make it im guessing you wont even seen much fight back in the form of pirate internet radio since well that is much harder to hide then pirate radio(and sad thing is thanks to copyright laws probally a bigger fine then running pirate broadcast).
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|  jester121Premium
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Lake Zurich, IL | I never thought I'd see "boob" and "cum shot" in the same thread here on BBR. Glad I didn't check the news from work today... | |
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Des Plaines, IL | Enough with the technical jargon, tell us how you really feel about this matter. | |
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Tacoma, WA | Did my part too Mailed three snail mail letters. I hope it helps. | |
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join:2005-01-03 | Congress is in the dark It is sad that with all the modern forms of communication we have, the best way to convey a message to congress is a method hundreds of years old.
Sidenote: If CON is the opposite of PRO, isn't CONGRESS the opposite of PROGRESS?
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| | They should be treated the same. Government subsidy, by the way of lower rate and different rate structure for internet broadcasters started this whole mess in the first place. Both over the air and internet broadcasters should be paying the same rate per song. | |
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Cincinnati, OH | Re: They should be treated the same. i love pandora. great site! | |
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| | | The reason it was lower is because internet radio is fundamentally different than broadcast radio because you can be located anywhere and you do not need US govt approval if you're not in the US of $.
You want to kill native internet radio businesses? Make them compete with ones that don't have to pay massive royalties. | |
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Des Plaines, IL | Re: They should be treated the same. said by Sum Guy :
The reason it was lower is because internet radio is fundamentally different than broadcast radio because you can be located anywhere and you do not need US govt approval if you're not in the US of $. Very true. The RIAA cannot kill Internet radio, because the RIAA doesn't own a CRB in every nation on earth. All that the RIAA will succeed in doing is remove more artistry from music, by forcing small but brilliant US webcasters to quit, and move still more jobs out of the US.
But it will benefit the recording industry, right? I mean, before I discovered Radio Paradise »www.radioparadise.com/ last year, I averaged one new CD a year because the stuff on RF radio...sucks. But when I was introduced to the really good artists that I discovered still exist, I'm up to a couple hundred a year. Obviously that kind of demand has a negative effect on the industry somehow. | |
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