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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. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    as the owner of the first post monopoly, i also claim first webcast

  2. Question For Trolls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This comment was posted by an anonymous coward, but not me. Could the readers of Slashdot discus the validity of this please.

    Eh. My girl went to college [hope.edu] with C.T. and she tells me that he's a bad mother fucka. He WAS the terror of Holland, MI before he became a Millionaire! Many a punk ass got a free trip to the bottom of the big lake for looking at him the wrong way. So don't be playing. Anyone who can (at one point) get rich off a web site must have some mob or gang connections!

    1. Re:Question For Trolls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      So don't be playing. Anyone who can (at one point) get rich off a web site must have some mob or gang connections!

      You fool! You thought you were being "anonymous", but now Malda has your IP address... and he doesn't like nosy people asking too many questions! You know what else Malda didn't like? Natalie Portman fanboys, and "hot grits" and "naked and petrified" posters. Ever wonder where they disappeared to? Ever wonder why Meept posts disappeared real sudden, like?

      I hope you're using an anonymizer like I am, friend, because otherwise you just got pushed to the head of a very deadly list. You need to change names, change residences, and you need to do it now. Oh, sure, everyone will laugh this post off, go about their business, and you'll be content with your sad little life for a few days more... but when you hear that knock on the door at 4am, and you realize you have no place to run before Malda's goons kick it down, don't cry that you weren't warned. Even if you do listen to me, you can't escape them forever. They're not mob connections, they're not gang connections, they're military special forces who can hunt you like an animal across the globe if they need to. Where do you think the nickname "Commander Taco" really came from?

      You are already dead.

  3. 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.

  4. You don't get it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Editors probably delete submissions until they see a submission they think they saw a few times already "gee that must be important". So if you're the first with the scoop, they won't use your writeup but you're bringing attention to the good stories, so keep submitting! Your problem is mainly an ego problem.

  5. 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.

  6. 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 :)

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