Online Radios to pay Royalty fees

[Lubricant]

If you look at this article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6562823.stm

It says that online radio broadcasters will have to pay Royalty fees for every song they play.

It will be effective from 2010 and only US but could come to the UK.

All I can say is bye to all the free radios that are streamed.

(Please note, Didn't read entire artical so this information could be incorrect)

[Aces]

whoa! Good thing i dont own a radio lol.

[redtom]

All people will do is move to servers located out side of the US, there will always be a way of doing online radios.

[alexxxxx]

You've always had to pay royalties. It's just hardly anyone did.

This is just an increase.

[VPSwow]

We have 3 years! Most of us will not be listening to Habbo radios by then. Plus they will just use servers outside of the US. And i doubt that they will bring it to the UK. Thanks for info though!

[hybride]

I'm sure the governement don't care about Habbo sites owned by people that go on to the "Online Radios" section and say:


COULD I HAVE 10000000 LISTENERS AT 2000 KBPS PLZZ WITH CONTORL PANEL
And someone replies with:


I CAN DO IT ON MY RESELLER FOR 10 HCS. CHECK PM FOR MORE!!
They'll probably aim for sites like Pandora, Last.fm, etc.

[QuickScriptz]

Actually I'm pretty sure there's a huge petition going on to try and stop that bill - and it hasn't actually been passed yet has it?

I believe it's just been submitted....?

[Lycan]

Ahhh theres always moaning from companies how music is being broadcast from the net

but then again... they've been trying to remove child **** from the net since ... forever nd thats on the increase! ..

they won't be able to control the web... tis a sad sad thing

[Ed.]

lol they better not bring that to the UK - luckily i use UK servers :D

[Closel]

Lol
Me Too
>:[

[Ed.]

lol closel dont u have like 200 shoutcasts as well!

[Firehorse]

It will be effective from 2010 and only US but could come to the UK.


No, don't post false info... if you read it at all on the very first line it says this: "The increases will start on 15 May"
That means this year! They say the prices will keep on rising until 2010

So bad luck for people who won online radios hosted in the US!

[Recursion]

Dan, how do you know your reseller isnt in the US?

[Firehorse]

cos it is owned by ThisNameWillDo! who said in a post somewhere on the forum that his servers are located somewhere, dunno where but it didn't sound american, sounded more european

[Apox]

Well if I remember correctly anybody streaming copyrighted music to a public audience are required to have a streaming licence now for years. It maybe not royalties as per say, but you've had to pay for it for some time. How many owners can honestly say they have a streaming licence...