This has been the RIAA's game from day one - stiffle competition without offering an alternative. They will get theirs eventually. It's only a matter of time.
On 3/13/07, 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> > > > -- ============================== War Eagle
