Yesterday (26th June 2007, US time) was the Day Of Silence for thousands of webcasters in the US. I tuned into 1.fm's Top 40 online radio but the same lines were repeated for at least 30 minutes and that was when I found out that today (yesterday) is "Day Of Silence"!
On Tuesday, June 26, thousands of U.S.-based webcasters plan to turn off the music and go silent in a unified effort to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase that, if implemented, would lead to the virtual shutdown of this country's Internet radio industry.
"Silence" may occur if extremely-high royalty rates ...
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Written by Felix Ker on June 28th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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