Do you like to listen to online streaming audio from these sites?
- Pandora
- Live 365
- AccuRadio
- SomaFM
- BAGel Radio
- KCRW
- SKY.com
- ...and countless of other public radio station and webcasters who broadcast over the internet.
We're not talking about the infamous sites like Napster where people were able to freely download and exchange cd quality mp3 files. We're talking about live streaming audio that functions no differently than radio stations. There is no way of forcasting what is about to play and you can't keep the music. If you want to hear a particular song, you have to listen and hope they play it again. The benefit to such broadcastng? Diversity! You get exposed to new or rare music that otherwise would not be broadcast on your local "shore" radio stations.
The "Day of Silence" was organized to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase that, if implemented, would lead to the virtual shutdown of this country's Internet radio industry.
Participating streams will alert their listeners that "silence" is what Internet radio may be reduced to after July 15th, the day on which 17 months' worth of retroactive royalty payments -- at new, exceedingly high rates -- are due to the SoundExchange collection organization, following a recent Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decision.
Major webcasters like Yahoo! Launchcast, Rhapsody, and Pandora.com, in addition to some terrestrial broadcasters' such as many Public Radio stations who offer online simulcasts, will silence their streams along with other Day of Silence participants.
Listeners are urged to take action TODAY by calling their representatives in Washington D.C. and urging them to help our industry by supporting the Internet Radio Equality Act.
2 comments:
I'll do something. Great post!
Thank You! My craving for Ambient music and Reggae depends on it! lol
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