Internet Radio Stations React To New Royalty Scheme

sounds like that is what their gonna do

don't they get a fee for every cd sold wasn't that done when they first started cd's a pool for the music industry

here, here!

Down with the RIAA!

To many artists have been screwed by this "association" of heathons and devil worshippers! Only Satan could come up with a retro-active money SCHEME like this...

Cuban's, an I mean Cuban's as in those people living in CUBA, don't see anything wrong with a communist/socialist economy. heh.

DRM killed the radio star

Why dont they just NOT TELL ANYONE THEY ARE STREAMING??

The RIAA sucks pond water!!!!!!

Let's do the math.
Last year and the first 3 months of this year I bought ~ 100 CD's at ~$15 each.That's $1500 or $100 a month.
If I get mad and don't buy anything more from these frigging animals I save $900 this year.
I have to admit that I have been hanging by a thin moral thread on this issue.However now I think that no matter what the arguments against pirating are they now outweighed by what is clearly a moral duty to stop these bastards at any cost.

A collective of small Webcasters is finally gearing up to form an industry trade association to battle this injustice.
»www.smallwebcaster.org/

(from »www.fmqb.com/Article.asp ··· d=373556 )
Our local station here in chicago is protesting against the new royalty fees.

"Newsweb Radio Company's 9 FM, which trimulcasts on WDEK, WKIE and WRZA in Chicago, has decided to ban CD prize giveaways as an act of protest against the recent royalty rate hike for online music streaming.

"When I read that the RIAA and SoundExchange needed money so badly that they were going to price gouge independent Web streamers and radio stations who stream online, I knew we had to do our part," said Matt DuBiel, Director of Programming for 9 FM. "In the face of the RIAA's struggles, it just doesn't seem fair for us to be giving away CDs (for free) to music fans fully capable of paying for the music themselves. We're inviting everyone who has won a CD from 9 FM or any other radio station in Chicago this year, to return it to us and we'll exchange it for a 9 FM t-shirt and give the CDs back to the RIAA. Radio stations need to be able to stream online affordably.""

More on their website:
»weplayanything.com/