SaveInternetRadio

5 December 2004

In the US, online radio is getting shafted as of May 2002. The RIAA has managed to get BROADCAST classified as an act of COPYING rather than uh... BROADCAST. So rather than treat it like radio and license the stations in that way (Performance Royalties), its treated like file copying and stations are required to pay 0.0002 cents per song PER LISTENER. which adds up real fast.
And, the stations are required to do the adding and extremely complex logging, which makes it completely impossible for anybody except AOL/Yahoo! etc.
So all the US college stations are shutting down their internet mirrors.
It guarantees that mid-sized and small stations are unaffordable.

see the excellant:
http://www.saveinternetradio.org/