Man Is The Media.
Save Pandora, Last.fm, FineTune and netradio as we know it
April 18th, 2007 by Martin
The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger. The Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC has more than tripled the royalty rates for webcasters and left unchanged they will kill Internet radio.
The new royalty rates are irrationally high, more than four times what satellite radio pays, and broadcast radio doesn’t pay these at all
These exorbitant rates go into effect on May 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006!). Without Congressional action the majority of webcasters will go bankrupt and silent on this date.
Help save netradio as we know it – and services such as Pandora.com, Last.fm, and FineTune.com!
Sign the petition at www.savenetradio.org.
(Note: Seemingly only US residents can sign up, an obvious paraadox as all my European friends listen to netradio too. This is of course due to the DMCA that has no equivalent in the EU yet. What was it that the first W in www stood for?)
