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Ohio Schools Drop Webcasts Because Of DMCA

Posted by timothy on from the is-jack-happy-yet dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Yeah by syrinx · · Score: 3, Informative

    I mean, that Avril worked her way up through the ranks of the music business. She started off singing at local clubs with a band, and then she got her big break. Oh wait...my bad. She was most likely picked out of a pool of 300 other teenage girls.

    actually, she did work her way up singing at clubs and so on. nice try though.

    then again, this is slashdot, don't let facts get in the way of posting!

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  2. This sucks, but not as bad as they are saying by Directrix1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure it sucks that they couldn't play music associated with the RIAA and junk. But they could probably play music from the local bands. This would be better for the community anyways. And why couldn't they just take the retarded mainstream music offline, and only have these useful college broadcasts like games and stuff that are so needed by everyone.

    Listeners need to quit crying, and producers need to quit scurrying away like scared animals at the thought of having to change their content because of those DREADED COPYRIGHTS. Give me a break people. Alternative content exists.

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    1. Re:This sucks, but not as bad as they are saying by PurpleBob · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.

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  3. Umm... no. She was manufactured by her agent by Cletus+the+yokel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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