Hi Gabriel ! Le mardi 29 septembre 2009 21:35:14, Gabriel Afana a écrit : > So I've been doing a LOT of research in the legality of running an internet > radio and because of all the corrupt politians (at least in the USA), > running a legal internet radio station is not really possible for most > people due to the OUTRAGEOUS fees of SoundExchange. > > I've looked into running the radio in another country such as Canada which > have less strict laws, but the radio is for an online community I run > which is a legitimate business that I make my living off of. I dont want > to merge shady business activies (such as moving the radio system to > canada to avoid fees) with my legitimate business and have possible > problems down the radio. Im REALLY upset about this because I spent the > last several months developing this radio (spending 10-12 hours/day > working on it). This is what I was doing full-time.
I am really sorry to hear this. I understand why you want to do your business seriously and why you do not want to use alternative sneaky ways. I personaly believe the actual fees for net broadcasting are decided while consulting only the existing players, which already have a lot more income, and also for the most of them rely massively on traditional broadcasting, and for that reason do not have any interest into letting new concurrent appear on internet... I really hope that people like you with innovative ideas and willing to work full time on setting up new broadcasting systems for internet find their own economic equilibrium. > However, if I end up shutting down my radio, I do not want all that work of > mine to go to waste so I would like to share it with you guys. If this > ends up happening, I'll be sure to give everyone a tour and explain how it > works. In the very unfortunate case where this would happen, we would be pleased to host the source code, provided it is released under any open-source compatible license, which I am sure is what you have in mind. Another issue from our perpective would be the maintenance of the code, but that is another topic. Romain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
