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Old 07-06-2007, 07:59 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tyreay View Post
Please read the following letter passed on to me.

From Tim at Pandora,

I'm sorry to say that today Pandora, along with most Internet radio sites, is going off the air in observance of a Day Of Silence. We are doing this to bring to your attention a disastrous turn of events that threatens the existence of Pandora and all of internet radio. We need your help.

Ignoring all rationality and responding only to the lobbying of the RIAA, an arbitration committee in Washington DC has drastically increased the licensing fees Internet radio sites must pay to stream songs. Pandora's fees will triple, and are retroactive for eighteen months! Left unchanged by Congress, every day will be like today as internet radio sites start shutting down and the music dies.

A bill called the "Internet Radio Equality Act" has already been introduced in both the Senate (S. 1353) and House of Representatives (H.R. 2060) to fix the problem and save Internet radio--and Pandora--from obliteration.

I'd like to ask you to call your Congressional representatives today and ask them to become co-sponsors of the bill. It will only take a few minutes and you can find your Congresspersons and their phone numbers by entering your zip code here.

Your opinion matters to your representatives - so please take just a minute to call.

Visit Savenetradio.org to continue following the fight to Save Internet Radio.

As always, and now more than ever, thank you for your support.


-Tim Westergren
(Pandora founder)



Sounds alot like the attempts against PBS and Public Radio.
Very interesting post. I know nothing of the subject so will not comment. My overall view of the internet is that it should be a completely open forum as long as crimes are not being committed. My belief is the U.S. Government should keep thier nose out of the internet, they have many more serious problems. I smell corporate money here influenceing greedy politicians. For instance I hear the ACC advertiesment on internet bullies. This is the most obsurd thing I have ever heard. If you can't take the heat just get out of the kitchen. Go to a cooler kitchen. The ACC does nothing about all the Fascist Republican vile hate speech on the Radio. These are air waves are owned by all the U.S. Citizens by the way. Yet the ACC wants to control speech on the internet. Is the Internet actually owned by anybody? I don't think so. The question here is are we seeing hypocrisy or Fascism at work. This also applies to your Internet Radio question. In other words if we are talking hypocrisy we are talking about political bribes, very common. If we are talking about Fascism, then we are talking about something very dangerous. This is the first question you need to answer so you will know how to combat your problem. The strategics of attaking hypocrisy and Fascism are very different.
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