According to the LA Times small on-line radio webcasters and the music industry have reached a deal to lower the royalty rates due record labels. These rates apply to webcasters with less than $1 million in annual revenue. Small webcasters were originally not invited to the table when the webcasting industry and record labels first […]
Archive | October, 2002
What To Do When the Judge Is More Bloodthirsty than the Prosecutor? Judge Says RaiseTheFist Webaster Should Do More than a Year in Jail.
From LA IMC: Raisethefist.com’s webmaster, Sherman Austin went to court on Monday, Sept 30th to plead guilty [to a felony charge of 18 U.S.C. 842 (p)(2)(A)]. The plea bargain was to give Austin a felony conviction with 1 month in jail, 5 months in a half-way home and 3 years supervised release. As the prosecutor […]
More Gov’t Attacks on Indymedia — Greece
According to a feature on Global Indymedia, the Athens IMC has been targeted by the Greek gov’t in its “anti-terrorist summer,” a program its using to persecute leftist political activists: By the end of September, Indymedia Athens was among the groups targetted in the witch-hunt climate, with establishment journalists contending that the “site is supporting […]
more on DC harrassment of journalists…
Matt has a few more articles and resources on this story blogged at machination.
Reporters of All Stripes Detained by DC Cops; Corp. Press Just Sees an Inconvenience
Matt of machination.org has alerted me to a couple of stories on the bunches of journalists, both indy and mainstream, that were rounded up by overzealous DC cops last Friday at the start of the IMF/WB protests. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press reports that “The count of journalists arrested late last week […]