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Taken from circleofsouls.net
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The RIAA, through it's recommendation of exorbitant fees, is attempting to create a single voice in online music - it's own. Independent radio stations, such as this one and others, will fall by the wayside in light of the horrific amount of money being pursued by the RIAA. By forcing a per listener, per song fee on Internet broadcasters, retroactive from 1998-2000 (2001-2002 fees yet to be negotiated), they have sent the death knell to thousands of Internet broadcasters who cannot afford the thousands, and in some cases MILLIONS of dollars the RIAA seeks.
Only the BIGGEST boys will be left standing to play online music. Do you really want to go to AOL/Time Warner and the RIAA for your online music? Is the RIAA-sponsored pay-per-listen MusicMatch your preferred choice for streaming content? Of course not. You are an Internet Radio Listener, and your preferred choice for online music is in serious hot water.
The CARP proposal asks for .0014 cents per song, per listener from Internet-only broadcasters. This may seems like a small amount of money, but is in fact TEN TIMES HIGHER than the rate proposed by the broadcasting industry, a rate that reflected Internet broadcasting's true market paradigm. A station that averages 1,000 listeners and 300 songs a day could get slapped with a $300,000+ bill (.0014 x 300 x 1,000 x 365 x 2 [1998 - 2000]). Bigger broadcasters, such as Live365.com, could see fees in the MILLIONS. This is unfair and unjust.
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This is just another case of showing how greedy companies can get when they see an oppertunity to make money.
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The RIAA, through it's recommendation of exorbitant fees, is attempting to create a single voice in online music - it's own. Independent radio stations, such as this one and others, will fall by the wayside in light of the horrific amount of money being pursued by the RIAA. By forcing a per listener, per song fee on Internet broadcasters, retroactive from 1998-2000 (2001-2002 fees yet to be negotiated), they have sent the death knell to thousands of Internet broadcasters who cannot afford the thousands, and in some cases MILLIONS of dollars the RIAA seeks.
Only the BIGGEST boys will be left standing to play online music. Do you really want to go to AOL/Time Warner and the RIAA for your online music? Is the RIAA-sponsored pay-per-listen MusicMatch your preferred choice for streaming content? Of course not. You are an Internet Radio Listener, and your preferred choice for online music is in serious hot water.
The CARP proposal asks for .0014 cents per song, per listener from Internet-only broadcasters. This may seems like a small amount of money, but is in fact TEN TIMES HIGHER than the rate proposed by the broadcasting industry, a rate that reflected Internet broadcasting's true market paradigm. A station that averages 1,000 listeners and 300 songs a day could get slapped with a $300,000+ bill (.0014 x 300 x 1,000 x 365 x 2 [1998 - 2000]). Bigger broadcasters, such as Live365.com, could see fees in the MILLIONS. This is unfair and unjust.
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This is just another case of showing how greedy companies can get when they see an oppertunity to make money.
Just something I picked up - Linux radio are going to broadcast, over the web, the entire Linux source (spoken). It's going to take about a year, apparently.
Pah, that problems easy to solve, just use fixed widths instead of percentages. Easy..
Or, I could just leave the site to burn in the fiery pits of hell and laugh at it from way up high.
Anyways, back on with the topic.
Long live internet radio!!!
THEY CAN TAKE AWAY OUR LIVES, BUT THEY CANNOT TAKE AWAY OUR MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSIC.
Anyways, back on with the topic.
Long live internet radio!!!
THEY CAN TAKE AWAY OUR LIVES, BUT THEY CANNOT TAKE AWAY OUR MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSIC.
You could just center the images, I was wondering if you were waiting for the script before you changed it, I actually hate smaller screens, everything looks too big.
Fogmaster wrote:
Also: http://www.geocities.com/uktomf/viewandplay.gif
that's a 1024x768 screen.
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Yeah, cheers for that. I've already been informed about it, so I'll just get a script made that makes you view the damn thing in 800x600. Cos, I'm lazy and I ain't remaking it.
Also: http://www.geocities.com/uktomf/viewandplay.gif
that's a 1024x768 screen.
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Yeah, cheers for that. I've already been informed about it, so I'll just get a script made that makes you view the damn thing in 800x600. Cos, I'm lazy and I ain't remaking it.
Doesn't sound good, although I would have thought they'd be loads of flaws in this, BBC Radio 1 doesn't broadcast online, but it's still there, so hows that going to work out? also, the RIAA own most of the rights to the songs, they've lost billions of dollars due to MP3s if I were thm i'd do the same, try and regain a little bit of money.
Thing is, there will always be online software like Morpheus where you'll be able to get it free.
Also: http://www.geocities.com/uktomf/viewandplay.gif
that's a 1024x768 screen.
Thing is, there will always be online software like Morpheus where you'll be able to get it free.
Also: http://www.geocities.com/uktomf/viewandplay.gif
that's a 1024x768 screen.
Taken from circleofsouls.net
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The RIAA, through it's recommendation of exorbitant fees, is attempting to create a single voice in online music - it's own. Independent radio stations, such as this one and others, will fall by the wayside in light of the horrific amount of money being pursued by the RIAA. By forcing a per listener, per song fee on Internet broadcasters, retroactive from 1998-2000 (2001-2002 fees yet to be negotiated), they have sent the death knell to thousands of Internet broadcasters who cannot afford the thousands, and in some cases MILLIONS of dollars the RIAA seeks.
Only the BIGGEST boys will be left standing to play online music. Do you really want to go to AOL/Time Warner and the RIAA for your online music? Is the RIAA-sponsored pay-per-listen MusicMatch your preferred choice for streaming content? Of course not. You are an Internet Radio Listener, and your preferred choice for online music is in serious hot water.
The CARP proposal asks for .0014 cents per song, per listener from Internet-only broadcasters. This may seems like a small amount of money, but is in fact TEN TIMES HIGHER than the rate proposed by the broadcasting industry, a rate that reflected Internet broadcasting's true market paradigm. A station that averages 1,000 listeners and 300 songs a day could get slapped with a $300,000+ bill (.0014 x 300 x 1,000 x 365 x 2 [1998 - 2000]). Bigger broadcasters, such as Live365.com, could see fees in the MILLIONS. This is unfair and unjust.
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This is just another case of showing how greedy companies can get when they see an oppertunity to make money.
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The RIAA, through it's recommendation of exorbitant fees, is attempting to create a single voice in online music - it's own. Independent radio stations, such as this one and others, will fall by the wayside in light of the horrific amount of money being pursued by the RIAA. By forcing a per listener, per song fee on Internet broadcasters, retroactive from 1998-2000 (2001-2002 fees yet to be negotiated), they have sent the death knell to thousands of Internet broadcasters who cannot afford the thousands, and in some cases MILLIONS of dollars the RIAA seeks.
Only the BIGGEST boys will be left standing to play online music. Do you really want to go to AOL/Time Warner and the RIAA for your online music? Is the RIAA-sponsored pay-per-listen MusicMatch your preferred choice for streaming content? Of course not. You are an Internet Radio Listener, and your preferred choice for online music is in serious hot water.
The CARP proposal asks for .0014 cents per song, per listener from Internet-only broadcasters. This may seems like a small amount of money, but is in fact TEN TIMES HIGHER than the rate proposed by the broadcasting industry, a rate that reflected Internet broadcasting's true market paradigm. A station that averages 1,000 listeners and 300 songs a day could get slapped with a $300,000+ bill (.0014 x 300 x 1,000 x 365 x 2 [1998 - 2000]). Bigger broadcasters, such as Live365.com, could see fees in the MILLIONS. This is unfair and unjust.
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This is just another case of showing how greedy companies can get when they see an oppertunity to make money.