[DesScorp]

Keep in mind that corporate radio tends to be liberal radio. Independant webcasters can play what they want, and they just want a level playing field. The RIAA and their allies have increased fees from over 300 percent, and in some cases, to over 1200 percent for Net Radio operations. These increased rates don't apply to corporate radio stations, only Net stations. These rates are a deliberate ploy to kill off the threat of Net radio to the conventional radio stations.

[xcamel]

one more step to the “fairness doctrine”

[Nitro]

Nuke the whales!!

[ConservativeMind]

“These increased rates don’t apply to corporate radio stations, only Net stations.”

Don’t you think that is because the “corporate” radio stations are already paying more than the internet stations pay?

[Captain Peter Blood]

This is the same tactic that the RIAA did with satellite radio. They don’t want it and they also don’t want to innovate.
Digital radio is going well in Europe but not here.
I would say this amounts to Restraint of Trade.

[higgmeister]

What is wrong with letting the RIAA charging what they want for their product? I don't believe in government bailouts for private business.

My feeling is that no matter what happens the old heritage wireless stations won the contest the minute they purchased servers and routers and went on the WWW. They have the name recognition and product that sets the standard. The old underground FM stations in your buddy's basement of the late sixties and early seventies didn't survive either. If an Internet station wishes and expects to survive it will be with a product that can stand financially without government help.

[higgmeister]

I just went to the linked web page and got this:

FACT: At some point every day more than 7 million Americans are listening to Internet radio. Studies by Arbitron and Bridge Ratings conclude that between 50 and 70 million Americans listen to Internet radio every month, and about 20 percent of 18-34 year olds listen to Internet radio every week.

I'll suggest that the Internet radio that people are listening to is the old traditional station on the Internet. That is what I do. I listen to the radio in my car. I get out of my car and go into my office and boot up and listen to the same station. I suspect others in this factoid above do that too.

I'd like to know what are the Internet stations all of these people are listening to because I've tried to do that been extremely unsatisfied. They charge fees or give poor bandwidth and generally do not provide what I want to listen to.

[NRA2BFree]

One of our local radio stations has been telling us that they were not going to be able to broadcast on the Internet any longer because of the tremendous increase in fees they are going to be charged. That really blows.

[HAL9000]

The outrageous thing is that the royalty clearinghouse was given the power to extract fees from Internet radio stations regardless of whether they were owed or not.

You could start your own internet radio station, playing only your own original music that you composed and performed. Under the law, you owe fees. It's a racket.

[mysterio]

They never learn. Keep fighting the vcr.

[isom35]

isnt the internets a series of tubes?

[Tribune7]

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