[lug] [Fwd: Adios, Internet Radio]

Rob Riggs rob at pangalactic.org
Thu Apr 11 09:44:32 MDT 2002 

Internet Radio is not dead. Internet Radio in the US may by dying, but
the RIAA does not (yet) have a worldwide reach, and most other western
countries will deal with this issue in a far more sane manner than the
US.

This article is both sensationalistic and myopic. The whole of the
internet does not fall under US jurisdiction. There are lots of equally
good European sites out there that I listen to regularly and they won't
have to face the dangers of US politics.

In related news, BBC Radio is testing OGG streams:

http://support.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/oggurl/6music.ogg.m3u
http://support.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/oggurl/radio4.ogg.m3u

You'll need the Ogg/Vorbis RC3 packages installed to listen in.

-Rob

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> From: eWEEK News <eNewsandViews at eletters1.ziffdavis.com>
> To: FSCHMID at ARCHENERGY.COM
> Subject: Adios, Internet Radio
> Date: 03 Apr 2002 00:22:43 -0500
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> --OUR TAKE
> Adios, Internet Radio
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> Our Take
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> ADIOS, INTERNET RADIO
> 
> -- By Chris Gonsalves --
> 
> I'm a fan of Stardog, personally. Maybe you like CelticGrove
> or BlueCityJazz. Doesn't matter. In a few weeks, listening
> to music on Internet radio will be dead as a mackerel.
> 
> Shame really. The Internet radio business has been growing
> at something like 100 percent annually and is thriving in
> genres underrepresented on FM stations, such as classical,
> blues, jazz and gospel. Doesn't matter. The government,
> acting once again in the special interest of the music
> industry, is about to crush the idea.
> 
> In the latest example of groundless regulation and greed
> interfering with free commerce, the U.S. Copyright Office is
> considering a proposal that would force Internet radio
> stations to pay exorbitant royalties to record companies and
> performers, something their over-the-air counterparts are
> not required to do.
> 
> Where AM and FM radio stations pay a small fee to music
> composers, Internet radio stations are facing fees of up to
> 14 cents per listener per song. That fee would bankrupt
> nearly all of the Web broadcasters operating today,
> according to the group saveinternetradio.org.
> 
> Copyright officials have until May 21 to make the call, but
> considering that the recommended shakedown came from the
> advisory group they created--the Copyright Arbitration
> Royalty Panel (CARP for short)--it's clear the rubber stamp
> is warmed up and waiting.
> 
> How did we get to this point? Even if you thought Napster
> and others of their ilk were the bad guys, how did Internet
> radio become to the target of the Harry Fox crowd? It began
> in October 1998, when Congress passed the "Digital
> Millennium Copyright Act" (DMCA), which gave record
> companies the green light to collect royalties when music
> was played via "digital media" such as Internet radio.
> 
> It's an interesting departure from a music industry
> standpoint. Record companies and performers don't get
> royalties from AM and FM radio play because the copyright
> folks consider the promotional value of the airplay payment
> enough. So why the switch for the Internet? The theory
> bought by Congress is that Internet listeners can make
> "perfect copies" of the songs being streamed, and those
> copies could hurt CD sales. That would be a good argument,
> except that, as anyone who listens to Internet Radio knows,
> you can't make "perfect copies." You can't easily make
> copies at all. And if you can, they are of too low a sound
> quality to be useful in creating your own CDs. What you get
> sounds pretty much like those cassette tapes you used to
> make off the FM radio. Not great.
> 
> Never ones to let facts stand in their way, the solons
> assigned to the CARP published their recommended royalty
> schedule in late February. As the basis for the outrageous
> fee schedule, the CARP report cites a $5 billion deal
> between Yahoo! and Broadcast.com. The result was a figure
> that would leave most Internet broadcasters, who have
> attracted precious little advertising, liable for between
> 200 and 300 percent of their gross revenues. And, oh, by the
> way, the fees are retroactive to October 1998. According to
> Internet radio industry figures, a midsize independent
> Webcaster with an average audience of 1,000 would owe
> $525,600. 
> 
> See you later Stardog. It was nice knowing you.
> 
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