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Proposed changes in royalty rates paid to the RIAA are being passed by the CRB (Copyright Royalty Board) which will cause most Internet Radio broadcasters to discontinue operations. There is a short window of opportunity to appeal these outrageous rate increases, that will only profit the RIAA, big brain-dead broadcasters, politicians and lawyers in the short term.. and no one in the long term.. we the Public will suffer the consequences...

Help support Internet Radio by signing this petition... http://www.petitiononline.com/SIR2007r/petition.html

Read more here... http://www.saveourinternetradio.com/2007/03/04/the-view-from-paradise/

If you use and love, Radio Paradise (as I do), SOMA.fm, Live365, Pandora and many, many others.. you MUST take action now.. or these great resources for new music will have to close up shop, due to excessive royalty rates. Do you want to lose the choice that we now have? I personally do not....

copied from a friend on another forum, i thought it was important enough to share. you can only sign if you're a US citizen, but i use many of these services from the UK so i'm sure this will effect people worldwide.

if you can't sign it, please share it with people who can.

I have no Idea... I found this and thought that the general idea of the whole thing was rather stupid....