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Webcasting and the DMCA

Posted by michael on from the hot-and-cold-running-music dept.

nknouf writes: "A recent article on Salon talks about how college radio stations that webcast could face fee increases from $623/year to $10,000 to $20,000 per year. What's more interesting is information that Congress is considering a bill called the Music On-Line Competition Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah and Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va. The bill aims to "break the hammerlock the recording industry has over music distribution." My favorite quote, from Rep. Cannon: Napster is "one of the coolest inventions of modern times.""

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  1. Re:bye karma by dangermouse · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Kuro5hin is the place you oughtta be. When it comes back up (there was a catastrophic hardware failure), check it out.

  2. Re:bye karma by dangermouse · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    So, just because I'm curious and have the karma to burn... how exactly is my previous post offtopic? The poster of the parent was clearly pining for a user-edited discussion site, and I pointed him to one he might like. I was all over his topic.

    Ah well.

  3. Re:bye karma by zhensel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I think that if your post is germaine to its parent, it can hardly be deemed off topic. This has happened to me once or twice and is fairly annoying. People have message subjects for a purpose. If you read the first message of a thread and it is off-topic, obviously the rest will be off-topic as well, so if the digression doesn't interest you please fuck off. People have moderation points and want to use them all without the possibility of negative metamoderation so they search for all off-topic posts. What I really don't get is all the blatent karma whoring in general. I post off-topic as much as I do on, rarely get highly rated posts, but somehow I'm consistently at 50 karma. Really, it isn't a challenge. I don't see why everyone doesn't post at +2. I guess it helps not to have too polarized a community by allowing, say, a 150 karma level or something with a +3 bonus (clearly it'd be way to easy to make your comments seem more authorative with that bonus), but I see no reason why I should have a +2 bonus with the amount of effort I contribute to slashdot, especially given the moderation I've received. Feel free to moderate this post into oblivion to help me feel less guilty :)