Save Internet Radio!!
Well, this is a cause close to our hearts I hope as fans of one of Second Life's fun little clubs, and without Internet radio......it just wouldn't exist really...and DJ Kai's Brown Paper Bag wouldn't exist since he's from Reactor Radio.... an internet station....see it's all connected....so read on, and maybe even sign the petition if you feel so inclined......(this is copied/pasted from a notecard in world from Nicki Petrichor):
From Save Net Radio:
"On March 2, 2007, The CRB approved royalty rates that will bury any small webcaster, and create a heavy burden even for big broadcasters like Yahoo, AOL Music and Pandora. How high will these rates be? Around 100% of a small webcasters revenue, give or take a few points, in most cases. What?! That's impossible to pay! Yep, it sure is..
How did this happen? The RIAA told the CRB thats what they wanted, and the CRB just gave it to them.
Your're probably thinking, hey that's awful, but who are the the RIAA and CRB?
RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is a lobbying group formed by the five largest record labels. They are embedded in Washington D.C. They make sure laws are written to keep them rich, no matter what. They made headlines a few years ago opening lawsuits against elderly people, single mothers and children for trading music online, even though some of them didn't even have computers. Check out the latest RIAA headlines.
The CRB (Copyright Royalty Board) is part of the US Copyright Office. The Board is charged with determining the royalty rates that would be determined by a willing buyer and a willing seller in a marketplace transaction. They decided to jack the rates beyond a broadcasters means despite decades of royalty rates being 1 - 2% of broadcaster revenue. Raise your right hand if you want to take away consumer choice, hurt working artists, damage small record labels and put small webcasters out of business."
Without the online radio stations, you can forget clubs in SL and you can forget finding the wide variety of choices of online music stream that you can find today. Now, we need your help to save our internet radio!
It's easy and just takes a couple of minutes, but please, do so, immediately without any delay, your help is invaluable for this.
1. International Go to http://www.petitiononline.com/SIR2007r/petition.html and sign it.
2. In the USGo to http://savenetradio.org and follow easy instructions to make your congressive representative aware of your stance.
Also:
* Get involved Go to http://www.boycott-riaa.com and follow the developments and find out how to support this cause further.
* Don't buy or stream RIAA music. Go to http://www.riaaradar.com/ and find out which artists, bands and albums that are RIAA music, before you buy and stream the music.
* Help spreading this as much as you can, the more that are aware, the more likely we are able to save internet radio and hence our clubs in SL.
Thank you.
So let's do our little part to help? Otherwise, who knows what the future of Internet Radio will be??? George Dubya & his cronies might decide to have his own stream & takeover ALL the net-waves....Hahahah!
Too awful to imagine!
*shudders at the thought of Georgie-boys voice across the world allllllll day, every day, then runs away screaming, very loudly*
From Save Net Radio:
"On March 2, 2007, The CRB approved royalty rates that will bury any small webcaster, and create a heavy burden even for big broadcasters like Yahoo, AOL Music and Pandora. How high will these rates be? Around 100% of a small webcasters revenue, give or take a few points, in most cases. What?! That's impossible to pay! Yep, it sure is..
How did this happen? The RIAA told the CRB thats what they wanted, and the CRB just gave it to them.
Your're probably thinking, hey that's awful, but who are the the RIAA and CRB?
RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is a lobbying group formed by the five largest record labels. They are embedded in Washington D.C. They make sure laws are written to keep them rich, no matter what. They made headlines a few years ago opening lawsuits against elderly people, single mothers and children for trading music online, even though some of them didn't even have computers. Check out the latest RIAA headlines.
The CRB (Copyright Royalty Board) is part of the US Copyright Office. The Board is charged with determining the royalty rates that would be determined by a willing buyer and a willing seller in a marketplace transaction. They decided to jack the rates beyond a broadcasters means despite decades of royalty rates being 1 - 2% of broadcaster revenue. Raise your right hand if you want to take away consumer choice, hurt working artists, damage small record labels and put small webcasters out of business."
Without the online radio stations, you can forget clubs in SL and you can forget finding the wide variety of choices of online music stream that you can find today. Now, we need your help to save our internet radio!
It's easy and just takes a couple of minutes, but please, do so, immediately without any delay, your help is invaluable for this.
1. International Go to http://www.petitiononline.com/SIR2007r/petition.html and sign it.
2. In the USGo to http://savenetradio.org and follow easy instructions to make your congressive representative aware of your stance.
Also:
* Get involved Go to http://www.boycott-riaa.com and follow the developments and find out how to support this cause further.
* Don't buy or stream RIAA music. Go to http://www.riaaradar.com/ and find out which artists, bands and albums that are RIAA music, before you buy and stream the music.
* Help spreading this as much as you can, the more that are aware, the more likely we are able to save internet radio and hence our clubs in SL.
Thank you.
So let's do our little part to help? Otherwise, who knows what the future of Internet Radio will be??? George Dubya & his cronies might decide to have his own stream & takeover ALL the net-waves....Hahahah!
Too awful to imagine!
*shudders at the thought of Georgie-boys voice across the world allllllll day, every day, then runs away screaming, very loudly*
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