Senator Wyden, joined by Senator Brownback, today introduced a bill designed to nullify the Copyright Royalty Board’s recent ruling, which raises music licensing fees precipitously and threatens to put a lot of webcasters out of business. The bill, call
Royalty fees are retroactive to October 1998. According to Internet radio industry figures, a midsize independent Webcaster with an average audience of 1,000 would owe $525,600.
- Record any web radio station or streaming music service. Get perfectly separated high quality MP3 files, automatically tagged with the artist and song title.
The latest "Web 2.0" site (based on the definition that it does something redundant, but through a browser) blogmusik.net is actually kind of cute. It gives you a virtual ipod and a big library of mp3's you can search, play and create playlists of.