The radness that is Internet Radio dies in less than 30 days...

[lindqvist]

Now, music does not have a segment on TRS, but I think most of us agree that music can still be pretty rad, and that the more choice there is, the better.

Please go to http://www.savenetradio.org/index.html to read more on what actions you can take to prevent Internet Radio from being killed.

To quote the summary from the story that I just posted on Digg:
"Internet Radio will be crushed July 15 by new US legislation unless we act now! If you care about Internet Radio, you should call your senators and representatives and ask them to co-sponsor Internet Radio Equality Act (introduced in both the House (H.R. 2060) and Senate (S. 1353)). Not a US citizen? You can still help by spreading the word!"

http://digg.com/music/Less_than_30_days_until_Internet_Radio_dies_Act_no w

(If you frown upon the promotion of my own Digg story, please just ignore the Digg link and spread the word in other ways. To me, the Digg story itself is not important, but Digg may be a good way to raise some last minute awareness and action.)

[comhcinc]

the thing is i really don't care about internet radio. i don't see the purpose. anyway only thing you got to do is get set up over seas where this law doesn't apply.

[lindqvist]

the thing is i really don't care about internet radio. i don't see the purpose. anyway only thing you got to do is get set up over seas where this law doesn't apply.

You're obviously entitled to your opinion, but I want to address what you said anyway.


The purpose is obviously much the same as that of regular over the air radio.

The main difference, as I see it, is that with Internet radio the stations have the whole world as their potential audience, not just the nearby area. This is not only suited for big mainstream stations, but I would say, especially suited for for smaller stations with more niched content. (Also, there's obviously no need to get frequencies, etc.)

You can, as well, do all sorts of nifty things such as what Pandora (which is now only available in the US, unfortunately), Last.fm and other non-traditional "radio" are doing, moving the concept forward in new and interesting ways.


I myself live "over seas", and still consider this important.
First of all, I believe that far from all of the US stations that will have to file for bankruptcy because of this will reappear based in other countries. Especially smaller stations will just vanish.

Secondly, the music industry will not be satisfied with having this limited to the US, they will move their lobbying/bullying efforts to the rest of the world to get similar kinds of legislation elsewhere if this succeeds in the US.

[comhcinc]

i would say internet radio has the lowest potential audience. sitting here in north alabama i listen to fm stations in south alabama, am stations out of chicago and world band stations out of france. if i get up and walk away from my computer i can no longer listen to internet radio. most of the world doesn't have access to the internet.

now let me say i don't think it is a smart move, but they control the copyright and i feel the copyright holder should be able to choose how their copyright is used.

remember to get around the law all you got to do is set up your bussiness over seas. there are whole countries in the caribbean that make their money off this very kind of thing. you don't have to moving any thing but a mailing address.

[heyseuss]

Bumpable, most certainly.

[heyseuss]

i would say internet radio has the lowest potential audience. sitting here in north alabama

Ohhhh, well there ya go, rhyme and reason.

[comhcinc]

i am really not understanding what you mean, could you expand on that?

[sloppybunny]

I listen to internet Radio. I have enough tunes on my iPod for when I'm on the go, but at home I listen to a couple of Stand-up stations and some music stations too. The free stuff on iTunes is pretty nifty. I still think tracks are bit too expensive, so I rather buy my music on a CD for that price.

So basically I dissagree with comhcinc to a degree, but then again I don't really talk net radio down the watercooler either, but I know a few friends who have internet radio in the BG. If you have it on all day though, it can be unfriendly to your bandwidth which I found out the hard way. (We have crappy limits in Australia) I'm in Korea now though, so it's not as much of an issue here :)