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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

New ruling threatens to silence Net radio

New ruling threatens to silence Net radio
As an Internet radio listener, you may know that a recent government decision on royalty rates threatens to destroy the Internet radio industry. The fees that webcasters are now required to pay to play the music you hear amount to well over most Internet radio operators' gross revenues.

So unless we can get the rates changed, services like AccuRadio will be bankrupt and go silent.

Internet radio helps promote music and artists that otherwise have few options to reach Save The Streams.orgpotential fans. To learn more about the royalty ruling, and about what you can to do help us fight this ruling, visit SaveTheStreams.org. From there you'll find links to sign a petition and to contact your representatives in Congress to tell them to save Internet radio.


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