I have previously written about the problems associated with the Copyright Royalty Board's new royalty rates for webcasts. To bring attention to this issue, today is Internet radio's "Day of Silence." KZSU-FM, where you can normally hear Hearsay Culture live, is participating.
If you listen to any Internet radio shows, podcasts or other programming that contain copyrighted sound recordings, you may be impacted by these proposed changes in royalty rates. If the predictions of people like Bill Goldsmith, the operator of the outstanding Internet radio station Radio Paradise who wrote a superb analysis of the impact of these rates on small, non-commercial Internet radio stations, and the public generally, are accurate (and I think they are), today represents that kind of programming that you can expect from many entities that are currently on the air.
As I previously mentioned, there is some time to impact what is to come: look here for more information if you're interested.
[Note: this post is cross-posted here.]