Tomorrow is the rescheduled Day of Silence. Hipdrop will be off the air for 24 hours. For more information please go to www.savenetradio.org
"...Thousands of Internet radio stations and channels across North America are preparing to go silent tomorrow (6/26) as part of an industry-wide "Day of Silence". The landmark event is designed to draw attention to impending royalty rates that threaten to virtually shut down Internet radio as a medium.
Plans for the event have already received coverage in numerous press outlets, including in The Wall Street Journal, on public radio's "Marketplace" program,and, this morning, on CNBC.
Webcasters participating in the event range from thousands of "hobbyist" webcasters and mid-size commercial webcasters to major commericial and publicbroadcasters and most of the largest Internet-only webcasters (including Yahoo!, Pandora, MTV, Rhapsody,and Live 365)..."
"...Thousands of Internet radio stations and channels across North America are preparing to go silent tomorrow (6/26) as part of an industry-wide "Day of Silence". The landmark event is designed to draw attention to impending royalty rates that threaten to virtually shut down Internet radio as a medium.
Plans for the event have already received coverage in numerous press outlets, including in The Wall Street Journal, on public radio's "Marketplace" program,and, this morning, on CNBC.
Webcasters participating in the event range from thousands of "hobbyist" webcasters and mid-size commercial webcasters to major commericial and publicbroadcasters and most of the largest Internet-only webcasters (including Yahoo!, Pandora, MTV, Rhapsody,and Live 365)..."
posted by:
|
Columbus
|
-
Re: June 26 - Save Internet Radio
Mon, June 25, 2007 - 12:39 PMI've been wondering how this is all going. Good luck! :O)
-
Re: June 26 - Save Internet Radio
Mon, June 25, 2007 - 5:29 PMAll of y'all are in my prayers... -
-
Re: June 26 - Save Internet Radio
Mon, June 25, 2007 - 7:04 PMBetter sign on to Hipdrop Radio. You only have less than 2 hours before it goes silent..... -
-
Re: June 26 - Save Internet Radio
Tue, June 26, 2007 - 5:50 AMThe day of Silence has begun..... -
-
Re: June 26 - Save Internet Radio
Tue, June 26, 2007 - 12:12 PMAn update from R.A.I.N.!!!
By DANIEL MCSWAIN
An overwhelming response by listeners to today's ongoing "Day of Silence" event has overwhelmed the web and database servers being used by SaveNetRadio.org and is tying up switchboards in Congressional offices all over Capitol Hill as a deluge of online radio listeners have rushed to contact their representatives to ask them to co-sponsor the "Internet Radio Equality Act."
Beginning just before 10AM CT, the SaveNetRadio.org site saw huge numbers of visitors arriving to the site, coming from links set up by webcasters participating in today's event.
Shortly thereafter, the section of the site that lets users look up contact information for their Congressmen and Senators, (powered by Capitol Advantage's CapWiz) was crippled by large numbers of users trying to simultaneously access their reps' information.
According to a representative from SaveNetRadio, "This is by far the biggest one-day load [CapWiz] has ever been hit with, and they are adding servers and moving all
available resources ASAP." The website is in the process of revising its home page to ask listeners to try again later this afternoon or tomorrow.
Meanwhile, listeners who do get the contact information for their representatives are having trouble getting through to the offices, as most House and Senate staff office phone numbers seem to be nonstop busy signals at the moment. Nearly a dozen phone calls from the RAIN office to various Congressional offices' switchboards have been unable to get through, as the lines appear to be flooded with callers.
-
-
-
