See the postings from a bit earlier to see that the respite offered was not wildly appreciated by all of the USA webcasters.
In all of the various discussions - I have not seen anyone try to compare how things are in different countries. As an example - the official rates for a UK webcaster playing tracks to UK only listeners (not simulcasting with FM etc) are: 12% of gross revenue (currently discounted to 5%) (or 100-200GBP for a small webcaster with less than 3000GBP per annum revenue) PLUS GBP 0.000538 per track per listener (stream) If you take the current exchange rate of 2 USD = 1 GBP then you will see that the UK rates (which have been in force for around 2 years) are something similar to the rates that the USA is proposing to grow to over coming years. My guess is that most small broadcasters do not pay anything except their raw streaming costs. I am involved with a very small (UK-based) internet radio station - and we do pay our fees but if we became very popular then it would be too expensive to keep running. In fact - with the stuff that we play there is not much chance of being swamped ;) -- Paul Webster Paul Webster http://www.lastfm.com/user/BondJamesBond ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36750 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
