Webcasting and the DMCA

Posted by michael on Friday December 14, 2001 @05:09PM 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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Great work guys by Stary · 2001-12-14 17:21 · Score: 1, Redundant

Great... one dead link, the other one links to page 2 of the article. Have you /. editors ever considered checking your links before posting a story?

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Case against Dmitry Sklyarov dropped by pmc · 2001-12-15 00:00 · Score: 1, Redundant

Although on peripherally relevant to the story (it is to do with the DMCA) I'm a little surprised that this has not had a story of it's own on slashdot yet.

It's on The Register