Wall Street Journal: Web Broadcasters Plan Protests Over Royalties
Music fans tuning into their favorite Internet radio stations next Tuesday might hear nothing but silence.Alas, AOL and Clear Channel aren't participating. AOL was originally going to support it, but the executive management said no. (Apparently they didn't want to piss off their subscribers and XM.) Although it makes you wonder: AOL and Clear Channel say they can't afford the new streaming rates, but then they go on to say they can't afford to turn their streams off for a day?!Web broadcasters are planning to turn off their music for the day to protest higher statutory royalty rates payable to artists. Some of the largest services, including Live 365 Inc., Pandora Media Inc. and Yahoo Inc.'s Yahoo Music, are participating in the blackout, which organizer Kurt Hanson of online-radio service AccuRadio has dubbed "Day of Silence."
Labels: crb, day of silence, internet radio
posted by Rusty Hodge [SomaFM] at
Thursday, June 21, 2007
5 Comments:
all internet radio stations that are commercial free and donation to listen too should survive the stay online . and be granted a grant just kike a state library gets... all radio stations that charge a fee and advertise commercials shall be charged a fee to stay ...... (the internet shall remain free and commercial free and all stations who take advantage of people like live 365 and rapsody should pay a fee how dare they charge us for music .. its their fault were here cause their greedy......Long live S.O.M.A FM. THE BEST AND THE ONLY ONE WHO CARES ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS .......
Unfortunately I cannot help you guys because I'm Portuguese.
Nevertheless I wanted to leave a message supporting your cause.
Thanks to you I've managed to keep out of the "mainstream" stupidity - without having to listen over and over again the great projects from my 80's; I was getting really nostalgic - and found a XXI century radio which enables me to keep in touch with the new indie projects that still remains unknown.
Great job and I really hope that your cause prevails.
Fortunately, Net Radio has a bit more support a the public level, I Quote my comment on SomaFM's Guestbook on this subbject:
"Hi there again. I just wanted to share an article with you folks at Soma and listeners. It is from Mark Fuerst, who heads up public broadcasting's new media organization. I beleive you could find on him a powerful and influential support. Hey, if in the States you have to lobby to succeed then you should go for it ( I assume you at Soma are doing that already). At least Net Radio has some support at the public level. I hope you will win this battle. -- Sebastian, June 26, at 4:01a
The link to the article I forgot to put on SomaFM Guestbook. BTW for some reason I just lost the "add comment" box on the guestbook so i cannot share the link there... "
http://technology360.typepad.com/technology360/2007/06/internet-radio-.html
I wish I could help, but unfortunately I live in Europe.
Everything has to be money driven today. And it often seems the quest for the almighty buck ruins good things for everyone. As with Soma FM. I enjoy Soma FM via itunes every day. (Usually listen to Drone Zone)
I have urged my friends to call their representitives to voice their concern about this BULLSH*T.
I hope Soma FM makes it through this tough time. I don't know what I'm going to do without it.
If you haven't already, start pinging more news (especially cable news) networks. Two angles to play: (1) Big brother only wants you to hear what they pick. They want to stomp out originality because it costs too much. It's the old guard trying to manipulate the youth into having to listen to more Britney. Focus on manipulation -- no one likes to be manipulated by big brother. (Think "The Truth" ads.) (2) We wonder why business goes off shore -- THIS IS WHY. Established businesses stifle emerging markets by using lobbyists and so the new opportunities go to other countries. In essence, our own government sends growth to other countries. We've done this before with industries like security so that Isreal and Dublin are homes to some of the largest security companies. Do we offshore our culture next? (Yes, over the top, but that's the point.)
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