Internet Radio "Day of Silence" hushes thousands of stations

Today is June 26, and that means that it's the Internet radio Day of Silence. The Day of Silence was organized by Radio Internet Newsletter publisher Kurt Hanson in order to protest against retroactive royalty rate increases that could end up putting many Internet radio stations out of business. The rates are due to go into effect in less than a month, and with no significant help from Congress as of yet, Internet broadcasters are resorting to silence to demonstrate what will happen if the proposed increases go into effect.

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By Jacqui Cheng
Source: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070626-
internet-radio-day-of-silence-hushes-thousands-of-stations.html

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