Last week, the new royalty rates for streaming radio stations were announced. A station with 1000 listeners will now have to pay $150,000 a year in royalties. This effectively forces independent webcasters off the air. The worst part: the rates are effective retroactively to the beginning of 2006!
Help get this senseless policy overturned: http://savenetradio.org/
Sign the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/SIR2007r/petition.html
Read more: http://www.save-internet-radio.com/2007/03/02/save-internet-radio/
No, the worst part is that the collected royalties are not distributed directly to the artists being played. Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss…
This will probably UP the illegal distribution of MP3s – the exact opposite of what the bureaucrats intended.