Wireless Internet Radio

According to a report by Club Wireless Internet Radio Net Radio released in March 2007[dead link], under the latest rates, annual fees for all station owners are projected to reach $2.3 billion by 2008. This figure is besides than four times that for traditional radio broadcasters who, due to terms concluded forth in the 1998 Digital Millennium Manage Act, are exempt from the additional royalties imposed on digital broadcasting outlets, which compensate the performers and hold owners of recorded works. Both traditional radio and Internet/digital radio broadcasters are responsible for royalties collected by performance rights organizations (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC) on behalf of the composers of recorded works.

US Internet broadcasters organized a nationwide coalition to oppose the quota hike and in bed of the Internet Radio Equality Act. On June 26, manifold of them participated in a "Day of Silence" — either shutting off their audio streams entirely, or replacing their streams with static, ocean poesy or other ambience, interspersed with breviloquent public service announcements — to focus attention on the consequences of the impending cost hike.