Dire straights for internet radio

The US District Court denied a stay for the unfair, retroactive royalty rates, which will go into affect Sunday for internet radio stations. Payment should be fair over all radio mediums. Please call your representatives now to support and bring the Internet Radio Equality Act. As Tim says, this is a medium that needs to survive. (For some reason the vid that I posted above isn't showing up in IE, here's a link if you can't see it.)

Other links:
Here's an article from KCRW in Santa Monica by Celia Hirschman called "When Our Leaders Fail Us".
Here are all of KCRW's posts on the issue.
Here's another link to SaveNetRadio.org.
Here's a Paste magazine article on the issue as well.

Comments

[Chuckles]

Crap. I wish I had noticed this on Friday.

[Adorable Girlfriend]

I knew about this from your last post and got on the e-mail system when you first told us about this. I called my friends in MA.

I miss my friends in MA. Joe Biden doesn't do it for me like Ted Kennedy can.