And the government allowed this to happen... Why the heck would the Patent Office meddle with this issue. It makes no sense.
I'd love to see Apple get involved. They are big enough to maybe change the decision... --- Roger Prokic [EMAIL PROTECTED] *NEW* Baltimore, Maryland USA -=[ This email was sent from a Palm Treo 680 palm computer using SnapperMail Enterprise Edition v2.3.7.01 ]=- _ ( ) The ASCII ribbon campaign X against HTML e-mail / \ ...... Original Message ....... On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:43:15 -0500 Craig Froehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've done some consulting for a local, fairly large Internet radio >station (10K listeners at any one time) and they are baffled as to how >they're going to pay for this. > >What strikes me as particularly evil is the fact that this royalty fee >is NOT paid by terrestrial broadcasters, who have quickly been >consolidating that industry into a handful of large companies. So, in >a nutshell, this is simply a way to keep new and innovative >competitors out of the market, and that is NOT what this sort of >legislation (or any legislation, really) is supposed to assist in >doing. >- Craig > >On 3/13/07, Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Those fees will add quite a bit of cost to net radio. I suspect they >> will be shut down because of them. >> >> wmotzing wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > There is a lot of interest in playing internet radio on the Treo. I >> > wish there were a way to figure this new royalty issue out. >> > >> > I feel digital music is overpriced and that the record labels and >> > tech. companies are squeezing us unfairly with DRM. >> > >> > Now the internet radio is going to go? >> > >> > http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/03/us_copyright_ro.html >> > <http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/03/us_copyright_ro.html> >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > >-- >http://www.GearBits.com -- Tech. Culture. Ideas. Opinions. > >
