Net radio’s day of silence
p2pnet.net news:- Tomorrow, Net radios will go silent, thanks to an action being organised to protest the Copyright Royalty Board decision to boost streaming royalty rates.
Most online broadcasters taking part will switch off at dawn in their time zones, ending them in late evening, says RAIN’s Kurt Hanson.
They’ll be, “alerting their listeners that ’silence’ is what Internet radio may sound like on or shortly after July 15th, the day on which 17 months’ worth of retroactive royalty increase payments are due to the SoundExchange collection organization under the terms of a recent Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decision,” he says.
The SaveNetRadio.org coalition is behind the sound off.
Also See:
go silent – Web radio June 26 Sound Off, June 21, 2007
RAIN – Day of silence: June 26, June 21, 2007
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Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!
June 26th, 2007 at 3:08 am
I don’t think one day is long enough. Stay off for a week. Then come back with the same boring playlists as FM radio for a week to symbolise what it’ll be like when all the small webcasters are gone and the only thing left is corporate pap.
I think even the most die hard net radio fan can go one day without net radio. Give them a week of silence and a week of garbage and they won’t take it for granted anymore.
June 26th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
n/t
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:07 pm
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