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Friday, July 13, 2007

Web Broadcasters Postpone Plans for ‘Millennium of Silence’

Looks like the Day of Silence protest staged by Web radio outlets on June 26 isn’t going to become the daily event many had feared.
At least not yet. Internet broadcasters will not have to start paying sharply higher royalties next week, though the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., yesterday refused to halt the [...]

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

You Are Falling Into a Deep Sleep … When You Awake, You Will Do My Bidding.

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Webcasters to SoundExchange: No, It’s Not an All-Day Listening Party for John Cage’s ‘4′33″’

If things continue as they are, the Buggles may have to re-record their 1979 New Wave masterpiece with a new lyric: “Imbeciles Killed the Radio Star.” Thousands of Internet radio stations went quiet today in observance of a “Day of Silence” organized to protest a catastrophic increase in royalty rates that threatens to cripple Internet [...]

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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