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Take a moment to familiarize yourself with the issue, courtesy of SaveNetRadio.org.
The bottom line is this: The Copyright Royalty Board, the group charged with assessing royalty charges paid by web radio broadcasters, ruled in March to slap royalty increases of 300 to 1200 percent on web broadcasters.
The sad truth is this: if this ruling is not reversed, the majority of internet radio stations will be bankrupted and silenced.
Those that remain will likely do so only through licensing deals with major record labels. In short, they’ll at best become clones of the traditional radio stations that you long ago stopped listening to after getting fed up with preprogrammed playlists of the same 10 hit songs.
Forget the brilliant Pandora. Forget every other web station playing a diverse and interesting blend of music.
With internet radio, we finally regained something of what we lost long ago in traditional radio.
And soon- on July 15th, when the ruling goes into effect- we could lose it all in one fell swoop.
Most web broadcasters are observing a day of silence today in order to raise awareness of the issue.
It’s a depressing sound. Please help keep it from becoming permanent.
