Thursday, May 10, 2007

Threat to Internet Radio

I love internet radio, I have it on most of the day to my favorite classical radio station.

But internet radio is under a threat.

"Recently the Copyright Royalty Board announced new royalty rates for streaming sound recordings of music over the Internet. The new rates are much higher than before and threaten to shut many webcasters down as soon as July 15th when the rates go into effect . . . . If you want to weigh in on this issue, contact your congressman and ask him or her to co-sponsor H.R. 2060." Read more here.