Copyright Office Publishes Final Webcasting Rates

Ghaleon writes: "The Copyright Office just released the final rates for webcasting. Looks like the rates are lower than the CARP recomendations, though I'm no webcaster so I'm not sure if these rates are good or not ..." nbrimhall points to a bit more at soma fm as well. Update: 06/20 21:54 GMT by M : See our last story for background information. The final rates are nothing to cheer about: most webcasters will not be able to afford them. Update: 06/21 03:13 GMT by T : An anonymous reader points out the continuing coverage at kurthanson.com, including reactions from Reps. Boucher and Inslee.

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Stop Complaining

[dada21]

The geeks asked for this when they asked Big Nanny Government to go in and regulate Microsoft or enforce local phone companies to carry someone else's DSL line.

Ask for crappy regulation in one instance, and you're going to get 100 other regulations in other areas that may affect you badly.

Stop being so lazy, stop complaining. Get off your asses and vote libertarian and get this terrible fascist/socialist government structure out of our hairs.

Lobbying Congress as a group will do NOTHING. Forcing Congress to limit itself to Constitutional requirements will open up venues for all of us.