The Sounds of Silence

Today, thousands of webcasters across the nation shut down in a 'Day of Silence' to protest the proposed royalty rate increases slated to take effect July 15.

The proposed fee would require every webcaster to pay per song, per listen, per play, in addition to $500 per month per channel that would irrevocably put sites like Pandora out of business.

Radio stations are encouraging everyone to contact their local congressperson and ask them to support the Internet Radio Equality Act if they have not already.

This act eliminates the minimum fee per channel and charges webcasters the same 7.5% of revenue that satellite radio pays.

Today Save Net Radio has exceeded it's bandwidth and switchboards in Congressional offices all over Capitol hill are tied up with listeners phoning in on the issue.

Read more and act now: http://www.savenetradio.org