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Old 10-18-2002, 02:51 PM
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Default Senate puts Webcasting bill on hold

A last-minute procedural twist Thursday night stalled a Senate bill aimed at softening the blow of new online music fees for struggling small Webcasters. Jesse Helms was reported as the Senator that threw in the monkey wrench, if that lamer is your congressman give him a call!

Small Webcasters, many of which have said they will shut down rather than start paying new royalty fees that come due this weekend, had pressed for the passage of the bill as a last-ditch effort to stay in business. Negotiations earlier this month had won the support of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for the measure.
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Old 10-18-2002, 04:34 PM
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thats gay

we dont even pay for FM/AM radio
why should we pay for streaming music?
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Old 10-19-2002, 06:29 AM
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Thank God that sell-out got canned.

To quote from The Register -

"The bill was originally intended to grant 'casters a six month stay on performance royalties, but with seven minutes to go before the House voted last week, it was a replaced with an RIAA-negotiated settlement. That passed unanimously, but anger spread last week after many webcasters realized this did nothing for retrospective royalties owing since 1998, and would put many educational, and non profit webcasters out of business.

Even some of those involved in the breakaway team that struck the RIAA deal have since walked away from HR.5469, leaving a small number of casters advocating the increasingly forlorn measure.

One of those involved in the original negotiations, country musician and broadcaster Mike Hays, told us:-

"The Judiciary staff only had the picture from the RIAA and a very small number of webcasters for trying to save their businesses. I can't blame them for trying to save their businesses. But there were 5 or 6 webcasters there who could save their asses, and they went for it."

Hays walked out of the negotiations.
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