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My station is finally on

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Everyone check out www.gordonradio.com and let me know how you like the station. You can even pick what you want to hear. I would like your feedback if things look really bad. I did all of this using my speech program, so something might be out of place. I had my girl friend look around, but she could care less about this little project of mine.
 
the website is a little slow but other than that its great! I love these type of streams
 
I'm always amazed on how these smaller stations can skirt by the like of DMCA rules and get away not paying royalties. It's kind of like pirate radio use to be.
 
The DMCA forbids any interactive streaming service in which a listener can pick the songs he wants to hear. This is not a grey area. Any webcaster flagrantly violating this provision is, in all likelihood, also not bothering to pay copyright holder and music publisher royalties. Also, any streaming service signing on this late in the year, that is actually paying fees, would have to pay at least minimum royalty payments for the entire calendar year of 2006.
 
vsa said:
The DMCA forbids any interactive streaming service in which a listener can pick the songs he wants to hear. This is not a grey area. Any webcaster flagrantly violating this provision is, in all likelihood, also not bothering to pay copyright holder and music publisher royalties. Also, any streaming service signing on this late in the year, that is actually paying fees, would have to pay at least minimum royalty payments for the entire calendar year of 2006.
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The DMCA doesn't specfically state that a listener can not pick the songs they want to hear, it simply requires a different license for interactive services. The basic interpretation of the rule is that requests can not be played within one hour of the request. However, that would be impossile to prove in court as I can make every song on my station sound like an instant request when in fact the "request" may have been made hours, weeks, or even years ago. Using software for auto requests however would probably be considered an interactive service and would be much easier to prove if there was an actual suit.
 
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