Ican't find the little sheet of paper upon which i wrote down how to make a link, so I'll just print the URL and suggest that you check it out on your own.

http://www.saveinternetradio.com

That's three words written as one word: Save Internet Radio.

A system of payment and reporting of royalties for internet airplay is being set up that is so labor intensive and costly that only the big, multi-national corporation will be able to afford to provide music streams in the future.

Note that this is NOT about Napster or its clones. Napster is irrelavent to the discussion. This is about WFMT, your local public OR commercial radio stations providing simulcasts on line. It is about the ability of out fits like Hober Radio to be able to continue in buisness. It is about Sony, AOL/Time-Warner and other multi-national media interests trying to squeeze everyone off the web but themselves. They are using the government (in this case the Library of Congress) to stage a HOSTILE TAKEOVER of ALL webcasting. WFMT and other radio stations already pay royalties for the copyrighted material which they broadcast. The proposed system would charge them a second time. Webcasters like Hober Radio have no aversion to a costeffective royalty system. They never have. THEY ARE NOT TRYING TO DODGE THE PAYING OF ROYALTIES!!!

There is much more to be said, but I'm becoming too upset to be coherent. Please, for all of our sakes, check the website noted above. Most of you questions can be answered there.

Stephen L. Rich