Ohio Schools Drop Webcasts Because Of DMCA

An anonymous reader writes "The Toledo Blade is reporting that several Ohio universities have dropped their internet radio broadcasts due to the DMCA and CARP fees. It mentions how conviently parents, students and administrators used to be able to keep track of school news from accross the country and world. Now their silent thanks to the money and time that would be needed to comply with the new regulations."

Comments

Us Too

[joeljkp]

This happened to my college radio station also. Mississippi State University. Closed down this Spring.

Re:This sucks, but not as bad as they are saying

[PurpleBob]

You don't get CARP. It doesn't matter if they play all non-RIAA content - unless they've got logs from the past three years to prove it.

Plus, the law is set up to assume that absolutely all music in the world comes from the RIAA, and then they have some weird agency that would supposedly give the money back to whoever it was supposed to go to in those cases where it doesn't.

Questions about CARP

[TheHouseMouse]

I have a few questions about CARP fee's and how they may affect my listening. How does this affect webstations overseas? And what about non-riaa content? I mean...it seems like the answers are obvious, no they don't affect other countries, and they shouldn't affect non-riaa music. However when I check the webpages of some of my favorite webcasters, who are usually located in Britain or Spain, I get bombarded with notices about CARP and wanting me to fax my congressman. What's the deal?

Umm... no. She was manufactured by her agent

[Cletus the yokel]

Two years ago she was doing country gospel and new country in small-town eastern Ontario. She won a contest and got to sing a duet onstage with Shania Twain. Then she was "discovered", got an agent, and suddenly she was one 'bad-ass chick'. See this article for details.