Update: Thanks to your phone calls, faxes, and emails the bill did pass in both the house and senate. While the bill itself doesn’t resolve the underlying licensing issue, it has given us the legal framework we need to negotiate a settlement. We’re hard at work on that now. Thanks everyone!
Pandora needs your help…here’s the whole story (originally posted at http://blog.pandora.com):
After a yearlong negotiation, Pandora, artists and record companies are finally optimistic about reaching an agreement on royalties that would save Pandora and Internet radio. But just as we’ve gotten close, large traditional broadcast radio companies have launched a covert lobbying campaign to sabotage our progress.Yesterday, Congressman Jay Inslee, and several co-sponsors, introduced legislation to give us the extra time we need but the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), which represents radio broadcasters such as Clear Channel, has begun intensively pressuring lawmakers to kill the bill. We have just a day or two to keep this from collapsing.
This is a blatant attempt by large radio companies to suffocate the webcasting industry that is just beginning to offer an alternative to their monopoly of the airwaves.
Please call your Congressperson right now and ask them to support H.R. 7084, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 – and to not capitulate to pressure from the NAB. Congress is currently working extended hours, so even calls this evening and over the weekend should get answered.
The central congressional switchboard number is: (202) 225 3121
Or to look up your representative, visit: https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml
If the phone is busy, please try again until you get through. These calls really do make a difference.
This is a fork in the road. Only massive grassroots opposition will keep us from another 50 years of top 40 radio. It’s time to take a stand and break the stranglehold of broadcast media on radio.
December 6, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Hello. Thanks for what you do at Pandora.
Regarding this post, you should update this to indicate that the act was passed. I went through the trouble of doing what you asked, but then found that it was already passed.
Keep up the great work. ~C
December 19, 2008 at 7:58 pm
HEY its rich,a few weeks ago i asked about why you coudnot play more then a few cuts off of any album. you guys were nice enough to respond to me.Today the 19th my BIRTHDAY I turned you on and SAW that you had GIVEN us the choice to LISTEN to different songs by our favorite artists and almost any cut we wanted.IM SURE that myself enclued all appricate your concern in what will continue to make PANDORA THE BEST RADIO ON the air waves. YOU ALL ARE THE BEST, AND i know it takes a lot of work on EVERYBODYS effort. YOURS TRULY RICH.
April 21, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Hi.thanks you guys r doinng a really nice job I love pandora!! I just wish you load more Hispanic Christian hip hop or reageton, maybe somthing from, funky or manny montes, anyway just a coment thanks much I priciate your work, god bless.
August 14, 2011 at 10:14 am
I love Pandora and I hate Pandora.
Here’s why: your design is brilliant. But your execution — inability to equalize audio volume across different music pieces — requires me to keep getting up from my chair to adjust the volume knob.
Can’t you guys figure out how to equalize audio volume??? Then Pandora would be perfect.
An unhappy Pandora subscriber
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