Save Net Radio Coalition, Help Save Internet Radio!

Thank you once again for your support of the SaveNetRadio campaign. As you know, the future of internet radio is in serious jeopardy. Thanks to all your letters and calls to Congressional representatives the “Internet Radio Equality Act ", H.R. 2060, has been co-sponsored by over 70 Representatives in just 2 short weeks!

Now internet radio needs your help again: Due to the amazing momentum of the Internet Radio Equality Act in the House of Representatives, Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Sam Brownback of Kansas have introduced a companion bill in the Senate, S. 1353, also named “The Internet Radio Equality Act.”

We ask that you take a moment to now call your Senators to ask them to co-sponsor S. 1353, The Internet Radio Equality Act, introduced by Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Sam Brownback of Kansas.

In addition, if you have not called your representative in the House yet, we ask that you make this call as well to ask your representative to co-sponsor H.R. 2060, The Internet Radio Equality Act, introduced by Rep. Jay Inslee of Washington.

To find the phone numbers for your Senators and for your Congressional representative, as well as talking points for the calls, please visit http://capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/home/ and enter your zip code.

As you can see from the speed at which the House bill is picking up co-sponsors, your phone calls are an extremely effective way to pressure your representatives in Congress to lend their support to internet radio.

Your opinion matters to your representatives, and it matters to us. Without your support these bills could not have been introduced and without your continued support they cannot be passed.

Please visit SaveNetRadio.org to continue following the fight to Save Internet Radio.

Thank you,

The SaveNetRadio Coalition

To donate to the SaveNetRadio campaign please visit https://ssl.capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/fu...9704731&type=FR.
Any amount is greatly appreciated and thanks once again for your support.

I see my reps are not on the list. I'm not surprised but I think I will have to bug them again. My last email from the brobdingnagian bards contained a link to the saveinternetradio site so some progress is being made. Anybody thought of emailing some of the political loudmouths like O'Reily or Frankkan or even Howard Stern? We might as well put them to good use for a change.

84 cosponsors now! Interesting in that this is not a "liberal vs. conservative issue. Denis Kucinich (maybe the most liberal member of congress) and Ron Paul (most conservative) have both signed on to the bill. Keep dripping!

Glad to see you already realize what's going on. I like to bring it up once in a while to try to spread the word to the masses. There's no reason to put extra money in the RIAA's pocket if it gains nothing else.
I have a few grudges against the RIAA, going back a few years. I like to hurt them whenever and whereever I can. They are, IMHO, one of the truly evil organizations on the planet, and they have begun to spread (example, the ARIA- Australian Recording Industry Association).
The problem is thus- these are recording industry associations, or so they call themselves. They are for the labels- and not even all of them, just the big ones. This isn't an artists' association. It's a bunch of lawyers hired by some huge multinational companies whose only agenda is to find some little folk to bully money out of.
It would be like the oil companies hiring mob muscle to go beat up schoolkids and take their lunch money.
The RIAA can't expect internet radio to pay the royalties. They realize that the overwheming majority would shut down, resulting in no additional income for the RIAA. Even if the remaining few do manage to pay, the amounts will be a negligable percentage of the RIAA member organizations' income.

Damn, I went and got started when I promised myself I wouldn't... I'll stop now, even though most of this is only half-formed.

An interview concerning this situation;

http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/200...internet_music/

Well, there seems to be a huge drop in listening numbers over at Live365. I know we need to have the campaign to save net radio, but their business is sure taking a whollup!

A tribute to the members and listeners of Highlander Radio. Because we have such a strong web presence our rank is increasing at Live365. We are now the #1 Celtic Radio station and we are the 88th most popular channel!

Celtic Moon and Celt Rock Radio are increasing listenership in the face of this all.

Way to go members! Thank you so much!

Pay close attention to these two reps: Reps. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Howard Coble (R-NC), Not sure what they are up to, but seems like they maybe sleeping with SoundExchange!

this is a shame that US record industry is way too greedy
netradios are not as many as foreign countries
I can listen radio stations (traditional/net only) from UK/Scotland/Ireland/Hong Kong easier than US stations
this is bad to output US information and culture

Here is the response I just recieved from one of my reps in congress...
This should be a clickable link to the full size reply.

Is Highlander Radio going to participate in the Day of Silence in conjunction with SaveNetRadio.org on Tuesday, june 26?

Your response was pretty close to the same thing that I got.

Yes, we will be participating with the National Day of Silence with our 3 Live365 streams. My understand is that preferred VIP members will hear a short message about the days events, and then be connected to our broadcast.

Standard members will be redirected to a message or show about the Days events.

Today must be the day then...keep writing those people in congress...

Slainte

Alot of internet radio sites today went totally silent and even shutdown their websites. Apparently the response was overwhelming to the Congressional servers and phone lines to reps were busy!

Lets hope this sends a message loud and clear to Congress and our Government!

Amen to that! Let's hope they listen to a group big enough to bring 5 seperate systems to their knees at a whim just out of a sheer volume of legitimate traffic.