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DI.FM in trouble
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| Blizwar2 |
Unless we call our house and senate representatives and convince them to CO-SPONSOR THE INTERNET RADIO EQUALITY ACT, S. 1353 IN THE SENATE AND H.R. 2060 IN THE HOUSE, DI.FM will owe 2 million dollars. Considering they have only made about $400k off the site in the entire time they have been in business, this seems like a high royalty fee.
CLick here to contact your representatives
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| UWM |
| Yeah if this goes down pretty much every online radio station is ered. |
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| Blizwar2 |
And it sounds like it is going to go down unless we get the American public to speak up. See the problem with our country is that companies pay lawyers to lobby for things everyday that will make them more money. When bills like this go into vote, most Americans are not aware of them, or feel against them but aren't sure how to react against it without feeling like they have to put a lot of effort into it.
This country is a republic. That means that our elected officials are supposed to listen to us, and hopefully they will vote our way. It does not mean that they have to vote for what the people want. If the officials don't hear from us at all, and the RIAA is passing favors to them, they will go for the RIAA's vote. |
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| cervy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Blizwar2
And it sounds like it is going to go down unless we get the American public to speak up. See the problem with our country is that companies pay lawyers to lobby for things everyday that will make them more money. When bills like this go into vote, most Americans are not aware of them, or feel against them but aren't sure how to react against it without feeling like they have to put a lot of effort into it.
This country is a republic. That means that our elected officials are supposed to listen to us, and hopefully they will vote our way. It does not mean that they have to vote for what the people want. If the officials don't hear from us at all, and the RIAA is passing favors to them, they will go for the RIAA's vote. |
um lobbiest, republicans, lawyers, and the RIAA don't make money of something like this. It has to do with publishing rights. Blame BMI and ASCAP. Online stations like di.fm charge people for Premium online radio service without paying publishing fee's. Just like every radio station on the air, as well as every club including Vision, they want to make even online stations pay an annual royalty fee to air published and copyrighted music. Technically its a "performance" which is defined as any 30 portion or longer sample of music played for an audience, which means you have to pay them to do it. This is why there is about to be a big dispute about cell phone ring tones, because the idiots at performance rights organizations believe since the ring tone is being played when someone calls in front of people for the use of a "performance", the ring tone companies have to pay publishing rights. And since most ring tone providers are only doing 10-15 second samples of songs, the government might even change the copyright law for intellectual property as it was obviously written before cell phones and digital technology played such a huge part in music.
Its all retarded really. |
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| Yuris |
| quote: | Originally posted by cervy
um lobbiest, lawyers, and the RIAA don't make money of something like this. It has to do with publishing rights. Blame BMI and ASCAP. Online stations like di.fm charge people for Premium online radio service without paying publishing fee's. Just like every radio station on the air, as well as every club including Vision, they want to make even online stations pay an annual royalty fee to air published and copyrighted music. Technically its a "performance" which is defined as any 30 portion or longer sample of music played for an audience, which means you have to pay them to do it. This is why there is about to be a big dispute about cell phone ring tones, because the idiots at performance rights organizations believe since the ring tone is being played when someone calls in front of people for the use of a "performance", the ring tone companies have to pay publishing rights. And since most ring tone providers are only doing 10-15 second samples of songs, the government might even change the copyright law for intellectual property as it was obviously written before cell phones and digital technology played such a huge part in music.
Its all retarded really. |
I'm sticking it to the man by stealing more music. |
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| 17thfloorplumbe |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yuris
Lulz. |
stop saying that |
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| Yuris |
| quote: | Originally posted by 17thfloorplumbe
stop saying that |
Lualz. |
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| TranceArmstrong |
| i called my congresswoman judy biggert and told her to vote this down |
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| m. sylvia |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yuris
I'm sticking it to the man by stealing more music. |
with you on that one yuris! |
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| UWM |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yuris
Lualz. |
Haha, for some reason I found that funny. |
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| Blizwar2 |
Explain why am/fm radio stations don't pay royalties then. Advertisement? Because without them, nobody would sell a damn cd? No it's simply those that have control of the media, chooses who becomes popular. People's taste in music change depending on what they hear the most of. With Internet radio that control is lost.
And premium is there to cover the bandwidth/operating cost. If you think streaming 128bit to 50,000 people is easy and cheap, your outta your mind. |
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