A Reprieve For Net Radio?

Porsupah writes "The Register reports that "Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL) have headed the 'Internet Radio Equality Act,' which aims to stop the controversial March 2 decision which puts royalty of a .08 cent per song per listener, retroactively from 2006 to 2010 on internet radio," as imposed by a recent decision from the Copyright Royalty Board. "If passed, today's bill would set new rates at 7.5 percent of the webcaster's revenue — the same rate paid by satellite radio.""

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Re:Good to Hear

[oDDmON oUT]

What, like people weren't using FM radio as "an excuse to get around copyright" in the 60s and 70s?

Feh!

This "fear" that the great unwashed masses would somehow use netradio as a means to obtain "free" content is the same shibboleth trotted out by the *AAs to enforce unreasonable copyright extension and maintain an outmoded business model whose only design is to continue fattenning the coffers of middlemen and executives, not "The Artists".

Kudos to the representatives for showing a semblance of sanity, brickbats to the Copyright Royalty Board for being the sellouts that they are.

retroactively??

[nurb432]

The whole idea of changing the rules then penalizing you from actions in the past should be banned.

How the hell are you supposed to predict when congress will get a burr up its butt add that to your future business plan so you don't get put out of business ( or goto jail )?