Webcasters Learn Cost of Music. The U.S. Copyright Office says webcasters must pay the recording industry .0014 cents per song. Doesn't sound like much, but online broadcasters worry that it's too much. By Brad King. [Wired News]

Abstract: Webcasters are to pay .14 cents per song, per listener to play tracks over the internet. Radio stations will pay .07 cents per song, per listener.
Commentary: This is only half the story, as thre is considerably more detail here. Additionaly, webcasters have to track the following information about their listeners:

• The name of the service or listener
• The channel or program
• The date and time that the user logged in (in the users timezone)
• The date and time that the user logged out (in the users timezone)
• he time zone wehre the signal was recieved (user)
• Unique user identifier
• The country in which the user recieved the transmissions

I forsee this as the  end of webcasting as we know it, unless folks set up pirate stations.

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