Friday, June 21, 2002

kuro5hin.org: RIAA kills US-based Internet radio. "The statutory license for digital audio broadcasting (which includes Internet radio stations) proposed by the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) has now gone through the Librarian of Congress, and is thus final. For a small radio station (such as SomaFM), with around 2000 concurrent listeners per day, the licensing fee is about $500 per day. Advertising revenue based on current rates and the same number of listeners would also be about $500 per day. Thus this means the death of Internet radio stations." 13:08'11    comment [] listening to RIAA kills US-based Internet radio

Cory Doctorow: "Yesterday, I was interviewed for Minnesota Public Radio's Future Tense, along with NPR's ombudsman, about NPR's link policy. The piece turned out great -- Jon Gordon, the producer, did a great job of framing the story, and he was kind enough to provide an MP3 of the interview for those of us without RealPlayer support on our OS of choice: Link." 13:05'33    comment []