  JigsawStardust We ArePremium
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Cleveland, OH
| Yep Man are the People on Capitol Hill going to be the Riaa's bitch?
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Hillsboro, OR | Re: Yep Yes. | |
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|  hld3Humm Baby
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San Francisco, CA
| said by Jigsaw:
Man are the People on Capitol Hill going to be the Riaa's bitch?
[text was edited by author 2002-05-01 13:42:10]
Not if we all get together and try and fight this.
I knew something like this was coming last year when Metallicrap made their stance on Napster known and Major League Baseball started charging for online game broadcasts.
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| | JigsawStardust We ArePremium
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Cleveland, OH | Re: Yep I dig this one myself its Heavy Metal-Progressive rock steams out of the UK
»www.totalrock.com/ | |
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 rgoulet
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Pittsburgh, PA |  Our last best hope to fight mediocrity
We live on the verge of what could be a very sad era for American culture. The forces of creeping mediocrity and anti-democratic choice restriction are slowly eating away at the vitality and diversity that has made American Culture as powerful and engaging as it is.
hmmm. . . mediocrity and no choice. . . sounds like soviet era politics (which proved that decay necessarily follows from lack of choice). Well we've already lost our choice at the polls. And now in one of fate's curious ironies, unrestrained capitalist greed has started to twist and pervert our democratic polity so as to fashion for itself a kind of neo-soviet market of consumers robbed of any choice. ONE record company cartel. ONE oil company cartel. ONE film studio cartel. ONE radio and television cartel. ONE news outlet. You have no choice. You are irrelevant.
Internet radio is one small area that is seeking to open up to more diversity, more voices, more ideas, more formats, more choices for everyone. Tell me, where on the radio dial can I hear Digweed & Sasha?
Remember that we aren't irrelevant yet, and that we will have to fight to keep choice. Write you congressman. Write your senator. Write your newspaper. Write your grandmother. Just let your voice be heard or the bastards will take it away from you. | |
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Brooklyn, NY | Re: A Taste Of Things To Come thanks for the link to the form letter -- no excuse not to be heard!  | |
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| | Misspelt Gandhi You must mean "gandhi-esque" instead of "ghandi-esque". I hope you correct it so that you do not dishonor the great man.
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| | I wonder First let me say I am a moderate but I am sure I will get flame by republicans for this comment but...
I wonder if Gore won the election, would we still have to deal with all this? Would this even get past the "idea" stage? I highly doub't it since one he is a democrate and two he is pro-internet --- hey he invented it you know 
I just really feel that lately our privacy and freedom has been jeopardised and I wonder if there was a democratic administration in office would we still have these issues or at least issues as bad as this? | |
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|  ArchAngel21xWaiting For iPhone 5Premium
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| Re: I wonder said by rmartin123:
I wonder if Gore won the election, would we still have to deal with all this? Would this even get past the "idea" stage? I highly doub't it since one he is a democrate and two he is pro-internet
There is nothing wrong with speculation, so long as you don't say something like "Well if Gore was in charge this would not have happened" as if you know what would have happened.
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| | | | Re: I wonder i kinda doubt that Gore winning the election would have meant a thing in this case.
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| Re: I wonder said by martissimo:
i kinda doubt that Gore winning the election would have meant a thing in this case
HEY WAIT A MINUTE!!...didn't Al Gore invent the internet?!?!, hehe!, seriously though just another good thing trying to be stomped out in order to subsidize an obsolete, lethargic bunch of corporate dinosaurs. If my 80's hard rock/heavy metal stations are no longer around to listen to @ work, I will be pissed.
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| | JigsawStardust We ArePremium
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Cleveland, OH | said by ArchAngel21x:
said by rmartin123:
I wonder if Gore won the election, would we still have to deal with all this? Would this even get past the "idea" stage? I highly doub't it since one he is a democrate and two he is pro-internet
There is nothing wrong with speculation, so long as you don't say something like "Well if Gore was in charge this would not have happened" as if you know what would have happened.
In a nut Shell it don't matter who is in office we all know who really runs the show Its the ultra rich company's with there big money to give away to all there little ho's on Capitol Hill. | |
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| rgoulet
join:2000-10-27
Pittsburgh, PA | "Republican" and "Democrat" are just words used to keep you from realizing that you don't really have a choice (I mean really, what is the difference??).
Greed doesn't have a political preference, and is happy to buy all of the politicians it can, regardless of party.
Whatever party your senator and representative belong too, make sure you remind them that their job still depends on you! | |
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| | | Gore in office probably wouldn't have made a difference. The RIAA gives money to both Republicans and Democrats. For example, Sen. Holling's "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act" was co-sponsored by a nice bipartisan cast of characters:
Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, John Breaux, D-La., Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
So who says that Republicans and Democrats can't get along? Also, take a look at »www.opensecrets.org/ which breaks down quite nicely the political money trail. | |
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|  Polaris5All Hail, The Vulture From Van Nuys
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old RIA of A | The man that kicked all this off was your friend and mine, President William Jefferson Clinton, when he signed into law the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, from which CARP, the panel that came up with these rates, is directly derived and given authority.
As far as I remember, Vice President Al Gore was part of the Clinton Administration in 1998, when the DMCA became the law of the land.
You can guarantee that your privacy and freedom would be just as perilously jeopardized with a Gore Administration in office. Republicans like oil and banks, Democrats go for talk shows and CD's. Just ask Tipper...she's always been fond of the recording industry.
Something to think about at the Democratic primary in 2004. | |
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kudos:2 |  NEED MY DI.FM!
JERM NEEDS HIS TECHNO, GOING CRAZY, AHH! | |
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| | | Re: NEED MY DI.FM! Yeah, I can't stand it either. I'm dying without my DI  | |
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| | It's Working... It seems to be working - even with Cogent's mega bandwidth, I can't get through to SaveInternetRadio.org (and I usually can).
Hopefully, if this mess works out, I'll officially launch my station (was going to launch it about a month ago, but didnt want to pay for a server and then have to shut it down because I couldnt afford to broadcast).
- matt | |
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| | This sucks... God, this sucks.. without internet radio. That really convinced me to head over to »www.saveinternetradio.org
F*cking government. | |
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| | wolf fm www.wolffm.com is leading the broadcasting. | |
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I see trees. | DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT PLEASE. I don't think we can say this enough, go to »SaveInternetRadio.org and email your reps. Go ahead and use a form letter if you have to BUT DO SOMETHING!
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| | Internet Radio Silence Jerm I feel your pain.
Really enjoyed shoutcast.com's commentaries today...
Early morning and mid-day jitters without internet radio.
I'm hoping for a solution that will allow many stations to
continue broadcasting without being directed by the need for profit. | |
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