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SAN JOSE, Calif. - After getting a taste of the radio business in college, software designer Craig Patchett never lost his interest in broadcasting. But without a job in radio, it seemed likely to remain one of those unfulfilled passions — until something called "podcasting" came along. Now, Patchett's creating shows and sending them out to the masses every day — not over the airwaves to radios but over the Internet, from his personal computer in Carlsbad, Calif. His listeners download his shows to their iPods and other digital music players. Patchett, 43, is among a growing number of people...

Listen Live Online! Due to overwhelming demand, we're making "The Tony Snow Show" available online. Click the link below between 9am and noon ET to hear the show. (goto his site for the link)

Was working fine yesterday. Today, when I tried it, it says "Stopped" and won't "Play" after I click that. Anyone else having problems with it? Thanks- VRWC Agent#0498

CSPAN isn't working too well, even though I have a DSL connection. Anybody know of another live link?

IMAGINE being able to set up a tollbooth on the Internet. Now imagine collecting a small fee every time anyone in the United States clicked on the Web to watch a video of a car advertisement, to listen to an audio clip of a garage band or to review an updated credit card statement. Sound far-fetched? Acacia Research Corporation, an obscure but well-financed company in Newport Beach, Calif., has a portfolio of patents that, it claims, allows it to do exactly that. Acacia holds five patents covering streaming video and audio. The earliest one, numbered 5,132,992, was issued in 1992....

For those who wish to listen to Rush online, live: http://www.premiereinteractive.com/rushstream/

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Online music broadcasters and the record industry's main trade group, heading off what promised to be a contentious battle between them, on Thursday proposed a new set of royalties for Internet music broadcasts.   The resolution, which covers 2003 and 2004, came after a long and bitter dispute that involved lawsuits and arbitration over the royalty structure for past years. The Digital Media Association and the Recording Industry Association of America said they filed the proposal with the U.S. Copyright Office, which will soon publish it for public comment. The RIAA and the Webcasting industry...

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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Reuters launched an Internet service Wednesday to offer unnarrated war-related video footage and live news conferences, government briefings and other events. The service is free but is expected to become a paid offering in the future, the company said. The new offering "captures the scale of Reuters editorial operation and unrivaled expertise of our reporting team in and around Iraq," said Rich Sabreen, an executive vice president at Reuters. He said the news service has 150 journalists in the Middle East covering the Iraq story. Reuters does not plan to make the channel a fulltime...

When I have tried to tap into some of my favorite hosts at TRN recently, I get the following message at the top of their homepage: Please Note: The internet audio stream for TRN has been discontinued until further notice. But check back soon, as we hope to remedy the situation as circumstances permit.

May 21, 2002 The United States Copyright Office on Tuesday rejected an arbitration panel ruling on Webcasting royalty rates, a decision that brought smiles to the face of Internet radio executives nationwide. In a brief note posted on its Web site, the Librarian of Congress rejected the recommendation by the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) that would have set royalty fees at 14/100 of a cent per performance, a price tag denounced by Webcasters as prohibitive. "The Register of Copyrights recommends, and the Librarian agrees, that the CARP's determination must be rejected. A final decision will be issued no...