SAVE INTERNET RADIO!!!

The internet is the only place left where there is a great variety of different kinds of music available.

Who gave this virtually unknown Congressional group the RIGHT to push all the royalties from on-air stations to internet stations…without public input?!! Just another greedy Corporate grab for bucks.

It’s hard to believe that Clear Channel and CBS take in millions, but pay NOTHING, yet a little guy running out of his back bedroom has to pay a GRAND a MONTH to keep playing the music he loves. Oh, by the way, they’ve also made it impossible for internet stations to sell commercials, too. Now comes the dilemma. Where does the money come from to keep internet stations playing? (or do the AOL’s of the world want the little guys to go off the air so the Corporations can grab the bandwidth… hmmmm)

C’mon guys! Enough is tooo much!

The record industry is digging its own grave. I hate to see it take down good artists with it as well.

where is she?

Perhaps the US citizenry could go silent in protest of the US Military Industrial Empire.
Until then, don’t wake me.

Thanks for covering this, RS. As it gets harder and harder to hear variety on the AM/FM airwaves, it’s important to fight to keep internet radio alive.

There’s only one solution, and you people know what it is.

Stop buying music.

At least for awhile. I know this is an extremely difficult proposition, but admit it; despite all the junk these conglomerate whackjobs pull on us, we still hold the ultimate card.

The stations are protesting, it’s time we joined them. Stop buying music until the bands scream at the labels, who’ll scream at the suits to drop all this crap and bring radio back to what it once was.

I’m already protesting. Are you?

No internet stations? Well there is Short Wave with special effects called fadeing!

AMEN to your discussion of WOXY. I’ve listened to it since I was a kid growing up in the late 80’s, and it’s still the best radio station I’ve ever heard.

Save Internet radio, and save WOXY!

welcome to the soviet union.

all u need is bearshare and bitcomet

Evan, I really must ask you to research the facts before writing an article like this. For your information savenetradio.com is run by conglomerates such as Yahoo! and AOL who do not want to pay an extra $.65/per month/per user. The royalty increase that SoundExchange has proposed to these radio conglomerates is 1/11th of a cent. That’s right, $.0011 per song/per user. What people don’t realize is that SoundExchange has also made a deal with independent radio stations who make less than $1mill in revenue per year, so as to protect them. All they are required to pay is $250-500 per year based on the amount of revenue they pull in.

Music is intellectual property that has a value, and the artists and songwriters who create it deserve to be compensated. This bill that MusicFirstCoalition is trying to pass in Congress will force CORPORATE radio stations to pay a royalty on the songs they play. For those of you who are unaware, a CORPORATE radio station is an AM/FM station that you hear in your car, on your way to work.

Please, please, please inform yourselves. There are many wonderful organizations who are behind this bill, including The Recording Academy who consistently lobbies for artists and songwriter’s rights.

I encourage all of you to go to http://www.musicfirstcoalition.org to get the REAL story behind savenetradio.com.

Songbird -

The “deal” Sound Exchange has made to small webcasters is basically extending the same rates currently in effect for another 3 years. Webcasters want fair, longterm rates enacted NOW. They saw that the CRB is nothing more than RIAA puppets, so why would they want to fool around with dealing them again in 2010. It’s just a feel good, PR move on Sound Exchange’s part that does nothing to address the basic issue: why is internet radio being forced to pay a much higher rate than satellite radio..or why does terrestrial radio continue to pay NOTHING in the way of similar performance royalties.

No – web radio, aside from the big players – does not carry the lobbying weight in DC that XM, Sirius, or Corporate Radio does. They see web radio as a threat, and are using the RIAA as a puppet to esentially legislate them out of business.

Web radio pays royalties as it stands, but why do they have to pay more than either satellite radio or terrestrial radio? Riddle me that, Songbird.

there is a lot of money to be made here, I myself have increased my music intake ten fold in the past 7 years. There is a way to capitalize on this increase with the use of online music users. Musicians can STILL make there buck, and peole can pay SO much less, in fact, practically nothing, compared to what (was) once, as we all know, (even in yester – year terms), way too much, hence the Wallmart revelution of music sales, (which still sells at way too much.
You can forget about the stuff thats out there now, its gone, let it go. Focus (your) efforts on finding a way to do it RIGHT, for everybody, meanwhile, I’ll revel in what should be the complete meaning of FREE expression, of the most important aspect of it, enjoying it. And I will continue to share this love, with my own, well bought collections, to others who are willing to TRADE such loves of the like. Buisiness Law 101, need I say more. Look at Canada, there is something there…
I could go on forever, but know this, I feel they (musicians should get what is due to them and I feel for them, I do, I could never play my drums (i love so much) for a living, for fear of the NEED of exploiting it. Sharing is what music is all about. If I pay for the rights to something, it is mine to TRADE for something of equal value, who can dispute this, I thing the term Copyright Mongrel may apply here to somewhere. Its art, but get yours at the source, from go, do not try to slay a monster that we are (all) to blame for, it is futile. Focus efforts on bettering the process for everyone, fan and musician alike, a little off the topic at hand, but it still applies. These are our rights, THIS IS STILL AMERICA

Sorry, this edited version of the previous, I can write when my brain allows me… (Are you hiring’?)
Letter to Rolling Stone (response to article: “The Record Industry’s Decline”
Response to pakis’ post | 6/28/2007, 2:30 pm EST) AND for all you music lovers out there
Whoa, it’s all about the basics (MAN)!!!
There is a lot of money to be made here; (if that’s your thing), I myself have increased my music intake ten fold in the past 7 years. There is a way to capitalize on this increase (with the use of online music users). Musicians can STILL make their buck, and people can pay SO much less, in fact, practically nothing; compared to what (was) once, as we all know, (even in yester – year terms), way too much (!) Hence the Wal-Mart revolution of music sales, (which still sells at way too much…

You can forget about the stuff that’s out there now, its gone, let it go. Focus (your) efforts on finding a way to do it RIGHT, for everybody.
Meanwhile, I’ll revel in what should be the complete meaning of FREE expression, and the most important aspect of this, enjoying it. And I will continue to share this love, with my own, (well bought, or even minimal) collections, to others who are willing to TRADE such loves of the like. Business Law 101, need I say more. Look at Canada, there is something there…
I could go on forever, but know this, I feel they (musicians) should get what is due to them, and I feel for them, I do, and I could never play my drums (I love so much) for a living, for fear of the NEED of exploiting it.
Sharing is what music is all about. If I pay for the rights to something, it is mine to TRADE for something of equal value, who can dispute this, I thing the term Copyright Mongrel (may) apply here somewhere.
Its art, but get yours at the source, from go; do not try to slay a monster that we are (all) to blame for, it is futile. Focus efforts on bettering the process for everyone, fan and musician alike. A little off the topic at hand, but it still applies – These are our rights, THIS IS STILL AMERICA… I think I’m going to cry..

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