Help Save Internet Radio!
Posted by jamesfrankel on April 19th, 2007
I got an email yesterday from Tim Westergren, founder of the Internet radio site Pandora. Pandora is my personal favorite of the many sites out there, and I’ve mentioned the problems facing Internet radio and Pandora in a previous post. The email I received asked me to sign a petition to help convince Congress to overrule the incredibly high, and seemingly unfair royalty rates now imposed retroactively on Internet radio sites by the Copyright Royalty Board. I urge you to join the effort to help save sites like Pandora that will most likely go out of business if something is not done to change this ruling. Please click HERE to sign the petition to let your government representatives know that sites like Pandora need to stay online. Save Internet Radio!
I welcome your comments and suggestions.
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April 21st, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Wow! I hadn’t heard about Pandora until now- what an incredible resource! I will certainly sign the petition. In this new age of information, the record companies are no longer “gatekeepers”. They WILL find that it is simply too difficult to sweep the ocean back with a broom…
April 22nd, 2007 at 8:22 am
Owen,
Pandora is a fantastic site that will go out of business if the CRB ruling isn’t reversed. Please pass this alert along to your audience at mustech. It would be a huge loss to he online music community if Internet radio station like Pandora go silent.
James
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