Today i discovered a independent online radio station which has owners that see radio as an art form and not a platform to turn out a endless stream of advertisement and mediocre music.At the moment they pay around 10-12% of their income in royalties for the music they play, which seems very reasonable to me.But the “US Copyright Board” has made a decision about online radio which will mean the end of Radio Paradise and many other online radio stations.
This new regulation means the stations have to pay not 10-12% but as much as 125% of their income in royalties.
So if they don’t have some huge advertisers behind them (which will lead to a music station with a lot of advertisement, thus leading to the opposite they want to the station to be) they will not be able to continue their work and passion.
If you want to read more about this issue visit Save our internet radio which is made by the owners of Radio Paradise and is a good source for more information.
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I am with you on this. I first saw this earlier on Digg and thought about writing an article. A few weeks ago Gizmodo I believe had a boycott the Riaa post and I wanted to help. I set up 2 domains for this purpose but haven’t used them yet (boycotttheriaa.org and another that escapes my mind0). If anyone wants to use the domain let me know and I will pass it along, if not hopefully I can find some time to through up a social networking site for this cause, maybe use Ning.
too bad !! i really like radio paradise … a rare taste of music and no ads and all.
i’m not american .. don’t know if i can do much.
but i hope they get it through.
Hi,
In the last days i have been listening a big number of radio stations at http://radio.belive.ws .
Korbel