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 Morg 
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Joined: Apr 20, 2002
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Location: San Francisco, CA
     
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Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:16 am Post subject: Letter to Congress |
 
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Dear Valued Listener:
Thank you for taking a moment to preserve your access to the diverse programming you have come to expect from Internet radio.
On June 20, the Library of Congress issued a determination on proposed performance royalties for webcasters to pay record companies and artists for the right to stream their music on the Internet. These royalty costs are so high that they will prevent non-commercial radio from continuing on the web. They are also retroactive to 1998, which means that most stations are facing massive "past due" bills for everything they have ever played to listeners like you in the last four years.
We need you to fax your congressional representatives and tell them to ACT NOW to save non-commercial stations like the one you are listening to now.
To help you, we have set up a free fax service that will do this for you. All you have to do is supply us with your name and address so that we can automatically determine who represents you and send them a fax. You will have a chance to view the fax to make sure that you agree with what it says. We will need to retain your personal information in order to prove that the faxes sent to congress are from real people. However, we promise not to distribute your personal information for any commercial purpose. It will be used solely as a part of our effort with the US Congress to ensure the survival of student radio on the web.
Please help us continue to bring you the music you love! By faxing Congress either on your own, or with the form linked to at the link below, you will be adding your voice to the chorus of opposition to this ruling by asking Congress to act now to save Internet radio.
Click Here to fax your Legislators
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
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