Has RIAA and the CRB killed independent internet radio with the denial of the rate hike appeal?

by Tom Posted 2007/04/18 21:04:41

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	The adjustment for listening hours will allow small webcasters to survive
	The labels and artists are finally getting paid for their work
	The RIAA and CRB have crippled independent webcasters and the independent labels, consumers and webcasters will all suffer
	The end result is that RIA and the CRB are making themselves irrelevant and trying to take down the indi's with them
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	The RIAA and CRB have crippled independent webcasters and the independent labels, consumers and webcasters will all suffer	0 votes	0%
	The end result is that RIA and the CRB are making themselves irrelevant and trying to take down the indi's with them	3 votes	100%
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NPR's and other webcasters' efforts to roll back the crippling royalty rate hike for Internet radio stations have been gutted. A panel of judges at the Copyright Royalty Board denied their appeal, holding up "the original CRB decision in every respect," though a slight reprieve was granted in allowing stations to pay royalties based on "average listening hours" rather than per play through 2008.

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Sam 2007/04/18 22:59:02

The end result is that RIA and the CRB are making themselves irrelevant and t...

Too bad... this will ultimately hurt small bands and fans.

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e 2007/04/18 21:14:37

The end result is that RIA and the CRB are making themselves irrelevant and t...

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RIAA is clamoring for ways to extort money from a market that they simply don't understand and can't adapt to. If they continue down this path then soon nobody will want to broadcast RIAA backed music. Chances are that a lot of the internet broadcasters will focus more on content produced from independent labels, giving the indies yet another online forum from which to grow and prosper.

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