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Re: LooperRadio

At 02:07 AM 7/5/2002, Stephen P. Goodman wrote:
>I have a station on Live365, EarthLight Online, that's running over two
>hours of my material at this time.  I'm not using my full allotment
>obviously.  But, I've just gotten a notice from them saying that, because 
>of
>the recent rulings about royalties, they have to charge people a $5/month
>fee for the former free stations to cover it all.  Like I was talking 
>about
>several months ago?  I hate being right sometimes.

if you check the Live365 entries on fuckedcompany.com, you will see that 
they were undergoing major layoffs and drastic cost-cutting efforts last 
year, well before any of this riaa stuff. You were going to be paying for 
their service no matter what, because there is no way they could continue 
consuming so much bandwidth and keep letting everybody use it for free.

>This is hilarious in a dark way, in that I own my own material, it's not
>registered with ASCAP or BMI (at this time), and I pay nobody for the use 
>of
>it.

so put it on your own website. DIY.

kim


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