Some musician posted this in a forum over at .Radio Paradise:

I am sad to see such a burden placed on small, independantly owned and run stations like RP as often they are the ones who inspire us go out an buy a new CD, or download a tune onto our iPod, etc. However, for every one who is following the rules and reporting, how many are not? And I read somewhere that the internet giants like Yahoo and AOL are hiding behind smaller companies saying that they cannot afford this increase. As a musician myself, I depend on these royalties as part of the compensation for using the copyrighted product that I was a part of creating. Although I don’t want to see small stations who follow the rules go out of business, I don’t want to be losing money because someone else says they can’t pay (obviously aimed at the “big boys”).

Which way does he want it? Right now, Radio Paradise, if it plays his music, is probably a better promotion tool than terrestrial radio ever was. Every song they play has a link that a listener can click to buy the CD at Amazon.com. How many FM radio stations can say that?

The royalties won’t be collected, because they put the webcaster out of business, and then the sales revenue will stop as well. If he doesn’t want to be ‘losing money’ he’d better think again about what really puts it in his pocket. If he’s not getting enough from CD sales, blame the record company, not the webcasters. Just because he’s getting screwed on his contract doesn’t mean to take it out on someone who is promoting his music and not charging him a cent to do it.

Here’s another site about this: Save Our Internet Radio.

Lots of good info, but especially, read the piece by Bill of Radio Paradise

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