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04/02/02 Save the radio online.
The independent radio online still have their raison d'etre as they can find band and small sponsors to survive. But in the U.S. this is going to be panned by The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, an arm of the U.S. Copyright Office, which resolved, using the never quite blamed DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), a fee of 14 cents cents for every user listening to music broadcast. This would in many of the knee amateur structures that, despite the thousands of listeners are most often managed by a single person. To counter quest'infausto measure a large number of webcasters launched its campaign Save Internet Radio to defend their right to survive. The smaller stations, in fact, already pay a fee of about $ 600 per year for the corresponding American SIAE (ASCAP and BMI), but with the new rules, the figures would increase to about $ 1000 a day. The first step was to seek permission to send songs directly to their respective labels, the vast majority of cases they granted without asking anything in return. In addition there is a misconception to which the defenders of the independent broadcasting are appealing, and that is that we talk about in the DMCA perfect copies of the original, while streaming is known to have a lot of quality inferior to that of a CD. Save Internet Radio from the site of the U.S. can send emails to their representatives at the White House to make their voices heard and to avoid another paradox only advantage of the big labels disografiche, benefiting from the new tax, the outcome of which could be finally approved May 21.