Internet Radio Price Hike delay declined by Judge

[mzkhadir]

ArsTechnica

 

[Slick5150]

If I can't listen to Pandora at work on Monday, I'm not going to be a happy boy.

 

[SVT Cobra]

FVCK!!! I thought the day of silence and petition would actually do something. There goes streaming WMMR and launchcast.

FING MPAA

 

[Balt]

Robbery.

 

[Toasthead]

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

These assholes are ruining everything!! Where does it end?? Fucking money grabbing sons of bitches!!!

 

[indamixx99]

Ah crap, there goes my DI.fm

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: indamixx99
Ah crap, there goes my DI.fm

You do know this doesn't apply to all music do you not? There's nothing stopping a good capable artist from permitting streaming of their creation. This may turn out to be a very good thing, it will certainly filter out all the mainstream bullshit from streaming sites.

 

[indamixx99]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff

Originally posted by: indamixx99
Ah crap, there goes my DI.fm

You do know this doesn't apply to all music do you not? There's nothing stopping a good capable artist from permitting streaming of their creation. This may turn out to be a very good thing, it will certainly filter out all the mainstream bullshit from streaming sites.

Go to di.fm's website. They're shutting down all of their public streams and only keeping the premium (pay) ones up.

 

[Cattlegod]

I hope terrestrial radio and sirius and xm are paying on a per song per person basis.

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
I hope terrestrial radio and sirius and xm are paying on a per song per person basis.

This does not effect them.

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: indamixx99
Go to di.fm's website. They're shutting down all of their public streams and only keeping the premium (pay) ones up.

No loss, the public streams weren't worth listening to anyways.

 

[Pantoot]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
I hope terrestrial radio and sirius and xm are paying on a per song per person basis.

Sirius and XM pay around 7% of their annual revenue. Terrestrial radio gets payola.

 

[amish]

bye bye accuradio

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff

Originally posted by: indamixx99
Ah crap, there goes my DI.fm

You do know this doesn't apply to all music do you not? There's nothing stopping a good capable artist from permitting streaming of their creation. This may turn out to be a very good thing, it will certainly filter out all the mainstream bullshit from streaming sites.

actually it pretty much does. soundexchange has some bullshit like a compulsory license or some bullshit that allows them to collect royalties FOR ALL ARTISTS (for which they can come and collect later. if ever.)

Most.Bullshit.Thing.Ever.

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[FoBoT]

the politicians must not use those sites

 

[George P Burdell]

Cosponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), and Rep. Donald Mazulla (R-IL), the bill would replace the CRB's royalty structure with a flat fee equal to 7.5 percent of the webcasters' total revenues.

I wonder how much money these bloodsucking leeches are gonna make out of this.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
FVCK!!! I thought the day of silence and petition would actually do something. There goes streaming WMMR and launchcast.

FING MPAA

You do know that the Motion Picture Association of America is not responsible for this?

 

[Savarak]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Cosponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), and Rep. Donald Mazulla (R-IL), the bill would replace the CRB's royalty structure with a flat fee equal to 7.5 percent of the webcasters' total revenues.

I wonder how much money these bloodsucking leeches are gonna make out of this.

WRONG. Those are the GOOD guys in the fight for netradio equality!

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Cosponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), and Rep. Donald Mazulla (R-IL), the bill would replace the CRB's royalty structure with a flat fee equal to 7.5 percent of the webcasters' total revenues.

I wonder how much money these bloodsucking leeches are gonna make out of this.

Wait, what? Wyden, Brownback, and Mazulla were the ones who introduced the *Internet Radio Equality Act*. The bill dictates that webcasters would pay royalties in-line with those paid by satellite radio broadcasters, which is 7.5% of total revenue. The bill was supposed to override the CRB's ridiculous per song per play royalty rates.

Anyways, just wanted to clear that up. Indeed this is bad news for internet radio.

EDIT: Beat me to it Savarak.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: Savarak

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Cosponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), and Rep. Donald Mazulla (R-IL), the bill would replace the CRB's royalty structure with a flat fee equal to 7.5 percent of the webcasters' total revenues.

I wonder how much money these bloodsucking leeches are gonna make out of this.

WRONG. Those are the GOOD guys in the fight for netradio equality!

My bad.

/goes back and actually reads the article

 

[DainBramaged]

The CRB's decision was immediately appealed by a coalition of webcasters led by National Public Radio. Shortly thereafter, the bipartisan Internet Radio Equality Act of 2007 was introduced into Congress. Cosponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), and Rep. Donald Mazulla (R-IL), the bill would replace the CRB's royalty structure with a flat fee equal to 7.5 percent of the webcasters' total revenues.

lol...they misspelled "Manzullo." He's the lifer congressman around here and it's one of the few things I'm actually proud of him doing.

 

[Pepsi90919]

internet radio?

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
FVCK!!! I thought the day of silence and petition would actually do something. There goes streaming WMMR and launchcast.

FING MPAA

You do know that the Motion Picture Association of America is not responsible for this?

RIAA I meant, in my mind they are the same entity.

 

[FoBoT]

*update*
they blinked

http://arstechnica.com/news.ar...-royalty-increase.html

Webcasters large and small are pleased with SoundExchange's change of heart, and one webcaster said that the outcry from fans of Internet radio was a major factor. "This is a direct result of lobbying pressure, so if anyone thinks their call didn't matter, it did," Pandora founder Tim Westergren told Wired blog Listening Post. "That's why this is happening."