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# NameZIP code (to help identify your Congress district)Optional: Thanks to Internet radio, have your CD (or music download) purchases (1) gone up, (2) stayed the same, or (3) gone down?Optional: Do you feel that the existence of Internet radio helps or hurts the music industry? ==================Optional: Other comments ==================Optional: Your favorite Internet radio station(s)
1 Eddie George3221601The presence of internet radio has renewed my interest in music, I cannot imagine how it could hurt the industry. It makes me buy more music than ever before.
2 Thomas E. Klein2864401It provides considerably more exposure for artists and their music.Radioio.com (20+ Music Channels)
3 Noni Gordon1121601I think it helps because Internet radio is how I discover new artists which leads to me buying their CDs and going to see them when they tourFuture Perfect on Accuradio
4 Susan Gellman4320901In my case, anyway, it helps. I buy MORE CDs now than I had for years, because I heard something I liked on internet radio. If I didn't have internet radio, I'd listen to my own CDS while I work instead of learning about new music I want.Please save internet radio! It means a lot to us.accuradio.com
5 Robert Thieme2089501I think it helps just looking at my experience. I listen to it at work. When I hear a song I really like I write down the name of the song and artist. Later, I may very well buy the artist's CD once I'm familiar with some of the songs.Accuradio and www.TexasRebelRadio.com
6 Janette Duhm6126501It's great to listen to music at work! Especially a place at which I don't want to download any extra programs on the system. Plus I am able to hear a number of artists I had never heard of before.AccuRadio.com
7 Anonymous8523401Helps!Accuradio
8 Lilia A. Angel6110701the existence of Internet radio helps the music industryinternet radio helps people discover new music and facilitates buying CDs through their links.Accuradio
9 Michelle Hartwig5061301HELPS! I am hearing music before I would locally and rediscovering music. I have been buying CD's that I have long forgotten about!Please don't destroy internet raido by chargin copyright fees and back dating them. Save internet radio!ACCU Radio and VH1
10 Joselyn Gentile6850201Personally, it introduces me to new music and make me more likely to download the tunes onto my ipod.Accuradio!!
11 G Ruiz8600104I think it helps because I like to hear the music before I purchase it. I don't like to go to music stores to hear the music. I believe it would hurt them to get rid of one of the main sources that people use in the their "other" homes-WORK.Accuradio
12 Ilene Bentley7570401Internet radio has definitely helped the music industry by allowing listeners like myself to immediately identify an artist and/or song and purchase that song or album online.Accuradio Yahoo! JazzTrax www.1069thepoint.com Pandora Ultimate80s.com
13 Joe Warner78045-945201I truly feel it helps.I took signing this petition seriously. It took my time from other things and I say this so you will too!AccuRadio & Music India Online. http://radio.musicindiaonline.com/actresses.html
14 Jana7413301
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16 Anonymous3000801Definitely helps. For example, I use the links to Amazon.com to find out more information about an artist, his past works and available CDs.Strictly from a selfish point of view, I would not want to see internet radio disappear. I listen to it daily at my desk at work. Is it possible that another solution can be reached to allow web site such as radioio and accuradio continue to serve the international listening community?Accuradio and Radioio MSN
17 Meghan Tidwell1913001Helps! It helps expose folks to new and different music, and there are links to amazon on accuradio, so you can instantly see the album and get it!accuradio
18 Monica Padron7857701No, it only gives exposure to new music that may otherwise be unheard.I have never written congress asking for anything, but I must do so now. This is the only way that I, a tax-paying, law-abiding citizen gets to listen to good music. I ask that you support this cause.accuradio
19 Ed Stoltman5826101Absolutly HELPSthe only place I can hear my kind of music from my generation. I do not want to pay for something that is pure junk to me. Please we vmust do allwe can to prevail.
20 Anonymous01helps expose to new music
21 Robert Kelly95945
22 Anonymous0214101Absolutely helps. I've been exposed to artists I would never normally hear on regular radio. My music collection and appreciation has grown immeasurably. Please consider the outcomes carefully before making the final decision.AccuRadio
23 Tim Burns2101401
24 Julie2001001
25 Frank Garcia03I feel it helps because I can choose from many more formats then is offered in KC or TexasI live in Germany and Internet radio keeps me connected with my homeland.99.5 The Wolf out of Dallas 101 The Fox out of Kansas City The Point out of Houston
26 Anonymous1121501internet radio, without a doubt, helps the music industry greatly. where large conglomerate radio families play a handful of artists with whom they have longstanding deals with the major labels (500 song playlists fed by 100 artists at best), internet radio brings much more variety to the listeners' ears. many listeners we know choose internet radio to hear new music they can't hear anywhere else (since terrestrial radio families are reluctant to air music from those who don't "research" well) and to hear less popular older music (ie: jazz, classical, standards, 60s girl groups, big band, etc.).the decision passed by the CRB discriminates harshly against small internet radio businesses and individual internet broadcasters and favors big business internet providers such as msn, yahoo and aol who also have internet radio. in essence, this decision will lead to very little competition within the internet sphere, and will result in less and less choice for the consumer. there should be royalty standards for internet radio, certainly, but these royalties should not render the large majority of internet radio broadcasters to close. at the rate determined, most internet broadcasters will owe more than 100% of their revenue to these fees. this measure promotes an air of anti-competition, or rather, competition reserved to the few internet companies and radio chains whose business and income is not predicated on internet radio.radioio radioparadise soma.fm
27 Anonymous40245
28 Sara Ford4024501Helps most definitely- I would never have heard of some artists without accuradio and internet radio!
29 liz opoka1121501internet radio, without a doubt, helps the music industry greatly. where large conglomerate radio families play a handful of artists with whom they have longstanding deals with the major labels (500 song playlists fed by 100 artists at best), internet radio brings much more variety to the listeners' ears. many listeners we know choose internet radio to hear new music they can't hear anywhere else (since terrestrial radio families are reluctant to air music from those who don't "research" well) and to hear less popular older music (ie: jazz, classical, standards, 60s girl groups, big band, etc.).the decision passed by the CRB discriminates harshly against small internet radio businesses and individual internet broadcasters and favors big business internet providers such as msn, yahoo and aol who also have internet radio. in essence, this decision will lead to very little competition within the internet sphere, and will result in less and less choice for the consumer. there should be royalty standards for internet radio, certainly, but these royalties should not render the large majority of internet radio broadcasters to close. at the rate determined, most internet broadcasters will owe more than 100% of their revenue to these fees. this measure promotes an air of anti-competition, or rather, competition reserved to the few internet companies and radio chains whose business and income is not predicated on internet radio.radioio radioparadise soma.fm
30 Anonymous5430102I believe it helps the music industry. I listen to Jazz and Classical and there are CD's I have bought that are old or I never would have discovered if not for Accuradio
31 Anonymous2450201
32 Anonymous8022801Helps-I would not know some of the artists I know now because they aren't played on the radio. If payola isn't really happening, I would be VERY suprised! I like now stuff-I can find it on the web!Please, Please look into this!!!!!!!!!Accuradio
33 Clarissa9021003This is the best site for listening to tunes! Please keep it alivePop
34 Lisa Fangmann5371701
35 EJ Plummer6060701I FEEL THAT THE EXISTENCE OF INTERNET RADIO HELPS THE MUSIC INDUSTRYTHANKS TO INTERNET RADIO STATIONS LIKE ACCURADIO - MY EXPOSURE TO MUSIC (NEW AND OLD) HAS INCREASED MY PURCHASES OF CD'S.ACCURADIO AND LIVE365 ARE THE TWO INTERNET RADIO STATIONS I LISTEN TO THE MOST
36 Keri Van Fleteren2771302For me, personally, listening to the different channels available on Accuradio guide me to the music I want to purchase. Listening to music online is about the only time I get to do this, and losing internet radio would be a huge loss for me.Accuradio
37 Kelli3343201It helps the industry, if one listens and likes a song, they are more likely to go and purchase the whole cd. A large percentage of the music that is heard on Accuradio is not run on local stations.The entertainment industry is wealthy enough to allow this internet radio station to exist....One doesn't charge to listen to local radio, so let there be @ least one venue available to everyone that is not out to nickel and dime the client.hits, classical, comedy,
38 Anonymous1208401accuradio
39 Summer Brown8906001It allows greater access to music that is not usually available to the general public. We have greater accessability to the genres we are specifically interested in. I have purchased more CD's by artists I was not familiar with because I heard them listening to the radio online because the station was more customized to my listening wants, rather than the generic mix on regular radio.accuradio.com
40 Paul Maloney6064701Helps, without a doubt. As an alternative to illegal file-sharing, we offer listeners a way to discover new music, and make it easy for them to buy it. This definitely helps the music industry.I listen to and am employed in the Internet radio industry. We've worked hard to build a product that's legal, and that people enjoy. We're not opposed to paying a fair rate to stream music, and we promote artists and recordings of every level and make it easy for listeners to purchase CDs. Yet these rates will surely bankrupt my company, and nearly the entire industry, as the fee obligations will be many times revenue.
41 Karen Johnson4790901This existence of Internet radio is an incredible boost to the music industry as a whole (particularly the musicians themselves). I would say that 90% of the new artists that I find and become interested in purchasing their CD comes from Internet Radio and its ability to allow me to select the genres of music that I love but are not often broadcast over the airwaves in small markets.Internet radio should not have such a vastly different royalty payscale than radio broadcast over the airwaves. There is not a significant difference in sound quality and internet radio provides a much better product. I hope that you do not support the extreme increases in royalties as the RIAA has promulgated. I hope that you are not in favor of this removal of choice from the american people. If internet radio goes away, my purchases of CDs goes way down.AccuRadio
42 Marie9721601PLEASE DO NOT TAKE AWAY INTERNET RADIO. IT'S HOW I LEARN ABOUT BANDS AND MAKE MY MUSIC PURCHASE CHOICES.accuradio
43 Marc James2826201Helps, free promotion and helps me discover new artists.RadioParadise.com
44 Ariana Foster8571803Helps. Makes consumers more aware of artists and their music.
45 Anonymous5042102
46 William Goldsmith9596901Helps. Absolutely.Please help us keep our radio dreams alive!Radio Paradise, SOMA, WOXY, KEXP
47 William Goldsmith9596901Helps. Absolutely.Please help us keep our radio dreams alive!Radio Paradise, SOMA, WOXY, KEXP
48 Brian Rose9220101It definitely helps as I buy more CDs and legally download more songs because of new music I am exposed to while listening to independant Internet radio stations.www.111radio.com
49 Denise Gottlieb6064001HELPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Internet radio is here. It needs to stay here. Radioparadise.com plays an important part in my life, and not just for the music. We are an entire community.radioparadise.com
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