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["Thomas C. Meggs" <tom AT plik.net>]

Yeah, it didn't quite happen like that at all.

The final rulling made internet radio for companies not FCC licensed 
prohibitively expensive. So you know, FCC licensing is also rather 
prohibitively expensive for a company with the interest of people in 
mind. However some of that is changing, anyway, another story all together.

Back to internet radio, more legislation was about to be passed to cut 
the costs for independant internet radio sites, but thanks to one of 
Jesse Helm's last acts before leaving the senate, it was nixed. In 
wonderful style, Helms said that the addendum should be back burnered 
because it wasn't good enough, that internet broadcasting should be even 
cheaper for independants. But wow, the legislation as far as I know 
hasn't been revisited, suprise surprise. I haven't read anything about 
it in a while, I assume things are about the same.

Regards,
Tom

David R. Matusiak wrote:
> this makes me muy curioso as to the current state of wxyc.org and other 
> college stations.  i didn't really have the time to follow the trials 
> and tribulations of the case, but it sounded like:
>
> 1. Courts "Hey, you internet radio stations -- give back our 
> Intellectual Property!!"
>
> 2. Stations "Hey, up yours.  We have the right to rock out!!"
>
> 3. RIAA to Courts "Crush them, DAMMNIT!!"
>
> 4. Stations "Hooray!! We got our freedom to broadcast!!"
>
> and then the next day, all of the stations went offline.
>
> was there more to this story?  WTF is going on?
>
> i found this:
> < http://www.wxyc.org/about/first/sos.html >
>
> but i have nothing nice to say to those dork-wads...
>
> On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 01:25  PM, Greg Newby wrote:
>
> > Webcasting restrictions make it difficult for user-configured
> > radio stations.  Some that used to be that way (like dead.net)
> > turned it off because they couldn't hack the reporting and licensing
> > requirements, or the costs.
> >
> > That's why you don't see stations like that - not technical
> > problems, but legal ones.
> >   -- Greg
>
>
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