Dear Money-Grubbing, Soulless Music Pimps: Enjoy Your Horse Porn Emails!
By Giania • Mar 21st, 2007 at 5:52 pm • Category: Fnord| Hot: |  |  | | | |
Jackshoegazer was kind enough and clever enough to take some important legislative news in regards to music, internet radio, broadcast radio, and everybody's favorite group: the RIAA, and break it all down for us.
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…
– source: Help Internet Radio Avoid Extinction (reposted)
I believe that's what you call “serious business”. He's provided several links to more news and resources on how you can learn more and how you can attempt to battle Bureaucratic Bullshit on Bureaucratic Bullshit's terms. I wish everone good luck with that, by the way. I will almost certainly throw in my two cents to people who are supposedly elected to serve We The People.
