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Day of Silence On the Internet

Posted by kdawson on from the silence-speaks-louder-than-tracks dept.

A number of readers sent in stories about Net radio going dark for a day. Not all of it, but according to the Globe and Mail at least 45 stations representing thousands of channels. The stations are protesting a ruling establishing royalty rates that will put most of them out of business on July 15. "The ruling... is expected to cost large webcasters such as Yahoo and Real Networks millions of dollars, drive smaller websites like Pandora.com and Live365.com out of business and leave a large chunk of the 72 million Net radio listeners in the dark." SaveNetRadio has a page where US residents can locate their senators and representatives to call them today.

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  1. I too... by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...am having a day of silence on the net.

    It's not going so well so far... argg... must... stop... posting...

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  2. Re:ahem by HomelessInLaJolla · · Score: 5, Funny

    from the silence-speaks-louder-than-tracks dept. Nothing to hear here, move along.
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  3. Re:ahem by utopianfiat · · Score: 1, Funny

    If a post is modded redundant in the woods...

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    +5, Truth
  4. We need more days like this... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... because my porn is downloading so much faster today!

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  5. In Soviet Russia by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Radio silences YOU!

    I know I know, I can't believe I just posted that, I also can't believe it's not butter.

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  6. The people, united... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    In solidarity, I won't download any illegal music torrents for 24 hours. I'll keep my uploads going, though.

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