This does not look good for us...

Originally Posted by VAXman

It doesn't look good. If Jim has to cough up more money for AM there are only 2 alternatives:

1. shutdown
2. make listeners pay

There is a third but I doubt anyone wants to go the commercial/advertisement route.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!

Take some time and follow the LoC link in the article Andyyy posted and tell them what a BIG FUCKING MISSTAKE they are making.

I'd add my name but you have to be a US citizen to register We have similar things happening here with the govt. causing real grief to live venues. B******S!!!!!

I did a few calculations:

Using the 2010 rate of $0.0019 Per song per listener.
Assuming an average listening volume of 100 at any one time.
Assuming 16 songs per hour.

I calculated that Aural Moon would be charged $25,630 a year by 2010.

Out-bloody-rageous!!!!!!!

Was reading further and there was a good point made. Record companies, I'm sure, wouldn't really want the closure of internet radio.....would they? Think of the volume of sales generated by listening to The Moon. Perhaps they should follow the saying "Be careful what you wish for....you might just get it!!"

Of VAX's options:

1 - Unthinkable
2 - The most likely outcome IMHO. A difficult thing to measure.

As for the commercial/advertising route I'm afraid we may have to bite the bullet and consider it some way down the road. Sad but true. Hey Ho!!!!

I need a drink now.....