Yahoo! LAUNCHcast Offline Today
In our office we keep LAUNCHcast humming all day listening to music to keep us active and motivated with different channels at different points during the day. We’re listening to it now, specifically the “Victor Wooten Fan Station”.
I just received an e-mail though stating they were taking LAUNCHcast offline today in protest.
Apologies to anyone who was hoping to listen to free LAUNCHcast today. We’re shutting down the Internet’s #1 radio service for the day to draw attention to the outrageous rates recently set by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, D.C.. We are doing so alongside thousands of webcasters including Pandora, MTV, Real/Rhapsody, WXPN.com, KCRW.com, and many many others. For a more complete list, check Kurt Hanson’s site, RAIN. AOL and Clear Channel stand out as the only two online broadcasters too corporate to show their solidarity (sorry, Lisa :) ).
Hopefully you’ll be seeing lots about today’s protest in the press, and most importantly I hope you’ll let your representatives in Washington know how you feel. Please visit the SaveNetRadio. org site where they make this easy for you. We need your help between now and July 15th when the first payments are due under the new royalty rates.
For the full story, check out Ian’s blog post here:
http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/06/26/yahoo-music-goes-radio-silentGo hear to tell your representatives what you think about this issue:
http://www3.capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/issues/alert/?alertid=9738601
It’s still playing now, so not sure when this audio blackout is taking place today. Not sure what we’ll do when that happens though.
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