You now have to pay a fee to broadcast on the net.
Congress passed a law that requires you to pay a monthly royalty fee of around $7.00 a month to be able to broadcast. This affects the small broadcasters more than the bigger stations. Becaose unless you have a solid revenue plan. Fee structures and regulations will be set so strictly that only large corporate broadcasters will be able to afford the physical and legal fees to broadcast, and small webcasters will be forced into underground pirate broadcast stations. I think the fee should be based on station performance instead of the small broadcaster having to pay every month just to play some music for their friends. For more info on the law that was passed check out www.live365's website. Or search for info on, United States Librarian of Congress concerning the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel's recommendations for usage fees of copyrighted materials. (CARP ruling)


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That place used to be awesome before all that crap about fees and crap I used it for about 2 years then they started up with all that shit about paying....

Yeah I had broadcasted there for years also. And totse radio was/is hosted there too. I dont know if Enigma has paid the fee to broadcast or not.

there was another place like live365 but they like closed down or something I cant belive I cant think of the name...

its alot more than a few measly dollars. http://www.saveinternetradio.org/

Is the one your thinking of http://www.shoutcast.com Boris?

No thats not it, I only went to it twice about 4 years ago ,Then I just went to live365...It was advertized in rolling stone mag awhile ago.

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Originally posted by Ain:
You now have to pay a fee to broadcast on the net.
Congress passed a law that requires you to pay a monthly royalty fee of around $7.00 a month to be able to broadcast. This affects the small broadcasters more than the bigger stations. Becaose unless you have a solid revenue plan. Fee structures and regulations will be set so strictly that only large corporate broadcasters will be able to afford the physical and legal fees to broadcast, and small webcasters will be forced into underground pirate broadcast stations. I think the fee should be based on station performance instead of the small broadcaster having to pay every month just to play some music for their friends. For more info on the law that was passed check out www.live365's website. Or search for info on, United States Librarian of Congress concerning the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel's recommendations for usage fees of copyrighted materials. (CARP ruling)


[This message has been edited by Ain (edited 08-24-2002).]

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This doesnt make sence to me congress has decided to govern the WORLD wide web, it really pisses me off to no end the controll the have over are lives. Is this only for people in America?

CTR

The FCC won't be able to govern webcasting. Look how far postage on e-mail got the PO...

This law won't last.

I hope...