Internet Radio Safe..for now

I don’t know how many of you listen to internet radio, but I do. I’ve always enjoyed listening to Pandora, a radio service which gears an entire station toward your musical preferences. It’s really saddened me to see how the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) raised royalty rates to the point that most radio webcasters will go out of business.

If anything, internet radio has done wonders for the music industry. New artists are being discovered every single day through services like Pandora. It’s a shame to see the CRB tax the life out of it. It just goes to show that nothing really ever is about the core issue, music. It’s about how much money can be made on taxing people out of existence.

For now, the Save Internet Radio group has won a temporary reprieve from more drastic measures that were about to take effect. In a new scheme, formulated by the infinitely wise CRB,  creating an internet radio station would cost about 6,000 USD. Considering that many of the internet radio stations that I listen to are broadcasted from the US, I’m still upset at the high price that comes with this “deal”.

I don’t want to hijack this post with uselessness, but here’s something I thought funny XD