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This past Tuesday, thousands of Internet radio stations found the perfect way to make their point about a recent decision to raise the royalty rates they pay - they simply shut down as part of what they called the "Day of Silence" protest. If the new rules go into effect as planned on July 15, the webcasters claim, there will no longer be niche streams like "Screamin' and Hollerin,'" "Ninja Tunes" or "The Cole Porter Songbook"--just three of the 320 channels available to listeners of AccuRadio, which is itself one of a legion of large, small, and miniscule providers...
Both sides had their say at a Thursday morning House Small Business Committee hearing. "If we have to pay those fees, we'd be bankrupted the day we had to write the first check," AccuRadio CEO Kurt Hanson said. "And this is all very ironic because Internet radio is one of the best things that has happened to the music industry in the last decade... It's given voice to genres and artists that have never gotten airplay before." Indeed, most music released every year is never heard on terrestrial AM and FM radio, with most songs on corporate-owned...
...royalty fees relative to their own revenues. Larger profits meant larger payments. But starting July 15, webcasters would be forced to pay increased flat rates (retroactive to the beginning of 2006) over the next three years for every performance of every song played on their streams. Additionally, each Internet radio station would have to pay a $500 fee per channel to SoundExchange, the organization that collects royalty fees, a provision that opponents say would be disastrous to companies who use the Internet's virtually unlimited space to create hundreds upon hundreds of very specific music channels...
...rains are also good news for the rice farmers downstream. Across the state, peanuts, pumpkins, peaches, berries, cotton crops, corn, watermelons, are all flourishing, according to the Texas Cooperative Extension service. Good news that is only heard during the ag report on the rural radio stations, while we city dwellers simply complain about having to mow the lawn twice a week and wear insect repellent to collect the mail...
...April, the country had become so swamped with cocaine that radio journalists in Bissau broadcast an appeal for villagers to phone in with details of mysterious activities. Locals near the airfield of Cufar quickly called on their mobile phones to describe major drug drops. Crucially, they exposed the military's deep involvement in the trafficking. "People called and said: 'Here is a plane landing, now they are offloading packets, now the military is coming, the military is loading it and driving toward Bissau,'" a local journalist told...