Reading the latest news about the CRB and Internet Radio rates, I'm struck by the royalty formula http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/07/webcasters_face_music "Webcasting royalty payments for Jan. 1, 2006, to July 1, 2007, due under the new scheme would total $.000762 times the number of songs played per listener... The per-listener rates would rise to $0.0019 per song by 2010. "
How is "per listener" calculated, especially for stations that don't require login accounts? If I have 2 or more Squeezeboxes playing the same Internet Radio stream, each is, as I understand it, making its own HTTP connection to the server. Would that therefore counted as 2 or more listeners? Should HTTP streams be processed through Slimserver so that a single HTTP connection to the Internet Radio source could be utilized -- reducing my bandwidth and broadcasters' royalty payments? -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36750 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
