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Internet Radio Will Go Silent on June 26th
Spamicles writes "Thousands of U.S. webcasters plan to turn off the music and go silent this Tuesday, June 26th, to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase that, if implemented, would lead to the virtual shutdown of this country's Internet radio industry. In March, the Copyright Royalty Board announced that it would raise royalties for Internet broadcasters, moving them from a per-song rate to a per-listener rate. The increase would be made retroactive to the beginning of 2006 and would double over the next five years. Internet radio sites would be charged per performance of a song. A "performance" is defined as the streaming of one song to one listener; thus a station that has an average audience of 500 listeners racks up 500 "performances" for each song it plays."
In your butt.
You know this 'rule' kinda reminds me of communist china in which if your feed up with your government you can try overthrow it but this makes you a criminal where execution is possible.
In a sense America is much like communist china its just a bit more free. If the people really had power bush would of been impeached by now but this is not the case.
America have got the people on lock right now more then any other country has in its history.
You are no longer mobilized, You are no longer group thinkers, you are free individuals following your own direction. This lack of group think is both good and bad at the same time. People who care about stuff and actively protest against it looked upon as minority's.
enjoy your freedom.