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While we're on this topic, we shouldn't forget the founder of Bell Labs... Alexander Graham Bell. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, it was an invention that transformed the world forever.

What we also know is that the telephone led to the development of the radio. A lot of us here on Slashdot have grown up on the radio. Now, radio in its latest (and coolest) incarnation, Internet Radio, is threatened by the RIAA. How sad it is that such a remarkable invention is being put aside because of money and profits.

But we can do something to reverse this. You can send a fax to Congress about the Internet Radio Fairness Act, which aims to save Internet Radio. You can send the fax and read more about the Act at Voice of Webcasters.

How about Internet Radio? What's the use of having Rendezvous without Internet Radio around. Fortunately, you can now send a fax to Congress about the Internet Radio Fairness Act at Voice of Webcasters.

...Internet Radio may not survive the RIAA's new laws. Fight back by sending a fax to Congress about the Internet Radio Fairness Act at Voice of Webcasters.

It seems strange that when we think about engineers, we forget about the politics behind them. Engineers may make the best tools and technologies, but if policies and law prevent those technologies to be used to the fullest extent, then it's really a shame.

Take Internet radio, for example. What a wonderful technology. But it's gonna be axed, not thanks to the RIAA. Well, good news is that some politicians know the importance of this technology and have introduced the Internet Radio Fairness Act. Please, support this act by sending a fax to Congress. You can do this at Voice of Webcasters. Time is running out!

The Internet Radio Fairness Act has been introduced in the House of Representatives. It's very important to send a fax message to your congressmembers to let them know how you stand on this issue. Click here to send a fax now.

http://www.voiceofwebcasters.org/smallwebfax.htm

Note: you don't need a fax machine - it is all done through the link above...

The Internet Radio Fairness Act has been introduced in the House of Representatives. It's very important to send a fax message to your congressmembers to let them know how you stand on this issue. Click here to send a fax now.

http://www.voiceofwebcasters.org/smallwebfax.htm

Note: you don't need a fax machine - it is all done through the link above...

If you really care about Internet radio and wish to see it remain free, check out the Internet Radio Fairness Act.

Quoted from Voice of Webcasters (VOW):

"Representatives Jay Inslee (D-WA), George Nethercutt (R-WA) and Rick Boucher (D-VA) have stepped up to protect small businesses from being unfairly forced out of business by the performance copyright royalties recently affirmed by the Librarian of Congress. They have introduced a bill in the US House of Representatives (HR 5285) that would SAVE INTERNET RADIO (click here to view a copy of this important legislation). In protecting Internet radio, it will help ensure that artists will have a chance to receive fair compensation for their work and that webcasters will have a chance to survive and grow to provide artists with a place to promote their music."

VOW also has a page where you can send a fax to Congress about this legislation.

If you really care about Internet radio and wish to see it remain free, check out the Internet Radio Fairness Act.

Quoted from Voice of Webcasters (VOW):

"Representatives Jay Inslee (D-WA), George Nethercutt (R-WA) and Rick Boucher (D-VA) have stepped up to protect small businesses from being unfairly forced out of business by the performance copyright royalties recently affirmed by the Librarian of Congress. They have introduced a bill in the US House of Representatives (HR 5285) that would SAVE INTERNET RADIO (click here to view a copy of this important legislation). In protecting Internet radio, it will help ensure that artists will have a chance to receive fair compensation for their work and that webcasters will have a chance to survive and grow to provide artists with a place to promote their music."

VOW also has a page where you can send a fax to Congress about this legislation.

If you really care about Internet radio and wish to see it remain free, check out the Internet Radio Fairness Act.

Quoted from Voice of Webcasters (VOW):

"Representatives Jay Inslee (D-WA), George Nethercutt (R-WA) and Rick Boucher (D-VA) have stepped up to protect small businesses from being unfairly forced out of business by the performance copyright royalties recently affirmed by the Librarian of Congress. They have introduced a bill in the US House of Representatives (HR 5285) that would SAVE INTERNET RADIO (click here to view a copy of this important legislation). In protecting Internet radio, it will help ensure that artists will have a chance to receive fair compensation for their work and that webcasters will have a chance to survive and grow to provide artists with a place to promote their music."

VOW also has a page where you can send a fax to Congress about this legislation.

Does anyone know whether their appeal opens up the possibility for other groups to argue that the rates are too high??

Dunno about the RIAA appeal, but this would. I submitted a story about it last week and it has yet to be rejected or accepted (grrr).

It would basically start the CARP process anew, creating a special classification for businesses who gross less than $6M / year. Those businesses would be allowed to participate in the CARP process for free (the original CARP process required a fee to have your opinions heard.) It would also allow those businesses to have a CARP rate different from the giant webcasters. One of the sponsors of the bill is the tech-savvy Rick Boucher (D-VA).

If you support the bill, go here and fill in your information and it will send a fax to your legislators. The process only takes a minute and if everyone does it, maybe it'll pass.

If you support the Internet Radio Fairness Act to protect small webcasters, it's worth spending two minutes at SAVE INTERNET RADIO! to automatically fax your support to congress.

One of the biggest grassroots movement right now is run by Voice of Webcasters, who're running a campaign to save Internet Radio by sending one million faxes to Congress. It would be a shame to see a fledging technology like Internet Radio go to /dev/null. If you truly care about Internet Radio technology, I urge you to send a free fax to Congress right now. The US House of Representatives go on Summer Recess on July 26th, while the Senate goes August 2nd. If we don't do anything now, a LOT of non-commercial and small Internet Radio stations will be gone by September!

Even if you don't listen to Net Radio now, you might in the future. Sending a free fax doesn't cost you anything, apart from two minutes of your time.

So I urge you. Please. Prove this article wrong. Show that the grassroots movement is definitely still there.

(p.s. CARP is still crap. I sent this fax just now, you can too.)