| # | Name | ZIP 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) |
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| 151 | Anonymous | 01701 | 01 | Helps, certainly. It is the only way to "try out" different artists and genres before purchasing. The entertainment industry is one of very few retail entiities that make all purchases "final sale." | While the internet radio stations may be "free", we all do pay an internet providor to access the service. Will we all need cable radio? Does everything need to be out of the reach of regular people?
The listening of these stations really consitute one big advertisement for the record artists and labels. | Accuradio |
| 152 | Carrie Lisonbee | 91351 | 04 | | | |
| 153 | Noreen Wheller | 11787 | | | | |
| 154 | Alan Bakowski | 30605 | 01 | It can only help the music industry. I listen to internet radio because the corporate dominance of terrestrial radio has made it hard to get exposed to new artists that I might want to listen to and support. Without internet radio, I would probably stop trying to keep up with what's going in the music industry. | Internet radio is not like terrestrial radio--it's a fantastic new medium that shouldn't be destroyed by excessive fees. I rarely speak out on issues like this, but if internet radio stations stop broadcasting because they can't afford the royalties, I won't have anything to listen to. | AccuRadio |
| 155 | Anonymous | 90745 | 01 | | | |
| 156 | Laura Johnson | 98199 | 01 | I think that my exposure to new music on Internet radio compells me to buy the CDs of bands I just discovered. | | pandora.com |
| 157 | Mellissa Foster | 97128 | 01 | I think the internet radio helps the music industry as it allows people to preview music before they decide to purchase and or allow them to get interested in music they may not normally listen too. It also gives new artists a chance to get their music out there. | It would be a shame to drive online radio stations out of business as there are many users that don't have access to a regulare radio at work and use them on a daily basis!!!! | www.accuradio.com, www.pandora.com, www.1051thebuzz.com |
| 158 | Gregory Ely | 30471 | 01 | Helps the industry by giving artists a broader context in which to exhibit their talents. | | Accu-Radio |
| 159 | Mo | | 01 | | | |
| 160 | Brian M Penn | 48060 | 02 | | | |
| 161 | Susan Oviatt | 80241 | 01 | Helps | I actually buy MORE music now because I can hear new songs as they come out. Without internet radio broadcasting, I don't listen to music at work because I get no reception in our office building. | AccuRadio |
| 162 | Eric B. Greynolds | 20852 | 01 | Nearly every bit of music I have purchased is attributable to what I have heard on web-based radio stations. I doubt I am unique in this respect among web-based listeners. The web- based radio is not a threat to copyrighted material! | The decision by the CRB is technically incorrect and unjust. Moreover, the CRB's decision only encourages further consolidation of the music and broadcast industry. | Radio Paradise (www.radioparadise.com) |
| 163 | Carl J. Steidel | 07716 | 01 | helps | | accu-radio. sky fm |
| 164 | Storms | 34711 | 01 | helped | | Radio Paradise |
| 165 | Anonymous | 94702 | 01 | I've gone to more concerts and bought more music because of internet radio | Please don't allow this tariff to stand: it will crush these channels that provide alternative legal music | somafm.com |
| 166 | Sarah Johnson | 02302 | 01 | | | |
| 167 | Anonymous | 83401 | 04 | Helps - I have found music that I like and have purchased since using accu-radio | | |
| 168 | Anonymous | 97306 | 02 | This is a great way to sample music then actually go out and make store purchases based on internet radio listening. | Save our internet radio please! | |
| 169 | Tiffany Thrasher | 30310 | 03 | Helps because if I was not able to list to an exerpt first or hear the artist I would not want to go out an buy a CD. | As a teacher this tool has been so important in exposing students to music other than what they hear on the radio or have at home. Please to not retard the cultural education of your future without exposure minds and hearts don't grow. | accuradio.com
smashitsusa.com |
| 170 | Noah Spitzer-Williams | 98103 | 01 | HELPS! | If you do this, you're only pushing customers to illegal methods of acquiring music. This means less revenue for you in the end. | Pandora |
| 171 | Raphael Schoonebeek | 13753 | 01 | I can only speak for myself, and it has increased my purchases of CDs by presenting new interesting music I otherwise could not hear. | Internet radio should be embraced by the record companies not shut down. For people like me (age 55) it's the only avenue to hear new music that appeals to me. I would say in the last 2 years of listening to Radioparadise me and my wife have purchased @ 60 CDs. This music was all new to us and without internet radio we would not have know about the artists. | www.radioparadise.com |
| 172 | Luis Landa | | 01 | helps | | Celtic Traditional |
| 173 | David Block | 60657 | 01 | Helps. | Since over-the-air broadcasters are sending digital signals over the air but need pay no royalties to RIAA, there is a significant issue of equal protection here. | Radio Paradise |
| 174 | Cindi Lettner | 92672 | 01 | It must help......I listen at work and have found artists that I enjoy and have purchased their cds. | | AccuRadio |
| 175 | wanda atkinson | 63109 | 01 | | | |
| 176 | Sharon Moreland | 66086 | 01 | | | |
| 177 | Ron Ragland | | | | | |
| 178 | Anonymous | 11743 | 01 | The existence of internet radio helps the music industry if you mean selling music. Independent and public radio and media are the only things I listen to. | | techwebsound.com
radioio.com ambient |
| 179 | Anonymous | 91101 | 01 | I think it can help the music industry, but the industry itself has become a slave to corporate entities that don't care about creativity or new voices | | Radio Paradise, SOMA fm and other genre specific stations |
| 180 | Nathan Skreslet | 24060 | 01 | They need internet radio to reach consumers like me. I will never listen to commerical radio so they have no way of reaching me otherwise. | I've already written to my congressman, but I want my name on this petition too. | Radio Paradise |
| 181 | Anonymous | 02138 | 01 | Helps - I discover a lot of new bands through the internet | | |
| 182 | Anonymous | | 04 | | | |
| 183 | Anonymous | 11743 | 01 | helps. Easier access. More choices. More freedom. Due to independent stations playlists. | | radioio |
| 184 | Richard Boyd | 91711 | 01 | Definitely helps | | Accuradio |
| 185 | John Pedersen | 67228 | 01 | How could it hurt it. It exposes people to more new material than they ever heard before. | | |
| 186 | Brian Morgan | 91744 | 04 | | Please don't let this happen. | |
| 187 | dana turney | 74008 | 01 | I've heard artists I otherwise would never know about because of internet radio. In turn I have bought CD's that I never would have because of internet radio. | | Radio Paradise |
| 188 | Danny Kopel | 90035 | 01 | the internet radio helps expose and support artists which I would otherwise not notice. | please reconcider, figure out a better way to allow internet freedom. Don't economically censor art. | Radio Paradise
Live 365
KPIG |
| 189 | Diane Miller | 77447 | 02 | I cerntainly don't think internet radio hurts the music industry. People who listen to internet radio to save money probably wouldn't purchase music even if internet radio wasn't available. People who can afford to purchase music will purchase it anyway. | I listen to accuradio, mainly for a chase of pace. It's great to listen to music without all the talking. | accuradio |
| 190 | Giannina | 08029 | 01 | | | |
| 191 | Patrick Mahaney | 14216 | 01 | Helps, I listen to far more artists and am exposed to more artists than I would be otherwise. Increasing the number of artists I may purchase from. | This is absurd and in my opinion an affront to free speech. | Accuradio |
| 192 | Bill Haenel | 13617 | 02 | If it weren't for internet radio, I wouldn't know what to buy. Does this help the music business? It does if there are more folks like me. | Has anyone justified this decision versus the effects it will have on the public? Is this really the best thing for ALL concerned? I don't see how it could be. | SomaFM.com |
| 193 | Jason Stoddard | 94521 | 01 | | | |
| 194 | Claudia McCabe | 07506 | 04 | I don't think it hurts the music industry at all. I do think that it encourages all of us to purchase the music we hear. | | Accuradio |
| 195 | bing stolzenburg | 95819 | 01 | I think it helps, just like broadcast radio helps. | I listen every day to piano jazz and pop standards. it is the only radio i listen to outside of my car. i hope and pray that these changes don't drive you out of business. keep up the good work, best regards, bing stolzenburg | Piano Jazz, Pop standards |
| 196 | Lydia Stelmar | 90713 | 01 | It has helped since it makes listening to more music available and therefore, music I would not have access to, I now purchase through Amazon and BMG music.... | | AccuRadio |
| 197 | Anonymous | 19968 | 04 | I feel it helps the music industry. | Please give this petition your urgent attention | AccuRadio |
| 198 | Cynthia Tatum | 38117 | 04 | I honestly don't know. | PLEASE DON'T STOP THIS - IT is wonderful to have internet radio! | ACCURADIO! |
| 199 | Michael Crandall | 33176 | 01 | It helps as explained above. | Please keep internet radio going. It soothes my workday and actually helps the economy and music industry by actually generating more music purchases. I myself have purchased albums online via accuradio after listing to a song. please don't kill this freedom. | Accuradio Classical & Celtic |
| 200 | Bart German | 64492 | 01 | Helps. I was NOT interested in what terrestrial radio was playing and therefore not buying music until I found that on the Internet, there were ways to discover (or rediscover) music that I was passionate about. | | www.radioparadise.com |