Coraggio ragazzi serve un momento del vostro tempo per salvare la radio adattiva online più avanzata del mondo “PANDORA”. chi non la conoscesse può scoprirne le varie funzioni nei vecchi post di questo blog.
mi è arrivata una mail del signor Tim Westergren, nientepopodimenoché, fondatore di Pandora che chiede aiuto. Eccola per chi non l’avesse ricevuta:
Hi, it’s Tim from Pandora,
I’m writing today to ask for your help. The survival of Pandora and all of Internet radio is in jeopardy because of a recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC to almost triple the licensing fees for Internet radio sites like Pandora. The new royalty rates are irrationally high, more than four times what satellite radio pays and broadcast radio doesn’t pay these at all. Left unchanged, these new royalties will kill every Internet radio site, including Pandora.
In response to these new and unfair fees, we have formed the SaveNetRadio Coalition, a group that includes listeners, artists, labels and webcasters. I hope that you will consider joining us.
Please sign our petition urging your Congressional representative to act to save Internet radio: http://capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/issues/alert/?alertid=9631541
Please feel free to forward this link/email to your friends - the more petitioners we can get, the better.
Understand that we are fully supportive of paying royalties to the artists whose music we play, and have done so since our inception. As a former touring musician myself, I’m no stranger to the challenges facing working musicians. The issue we have with the recent ruling is that it puts the cost of streaming far out of the range of ANY webcaster’s business potential.
I hope you’ll take just a few minutes to sign our petition - it WILL make a difference. As a young industry, we do not have the lobbying power of the RIAA. You, our listeners, are by far our biggest and most influential allies.
As always, and now more than ever, thank you for your support.
-Tim Westergren
(Pandora founder)
in sostanza la decisione di un certo “Copyright Royalty Board in Washington” ha triplicato i costi di royalties che la radio online deve pagare portandoli a ben quattro volte quelle che pagano le emittenti radiofoniche satellitari. Nella lettera, Tim, specifica chiaramente che da quando Pandora esiste ha sempre pagato correttamente le royalties ma che questi aumenti porteranno alla morte di ogni radio su internet Pandora compresa.
cosa possiamo fare? firmare la petizione online! vi prego diffondete più che potete!
Fonte: http://www.schiaccianoci.net
Io firmo! Uso Last.fm tutti i giorni!