100% legal

[cooljam]

how do I make my station 100% legal and ripper free

what things can i do and how much will it cost also I am living in canada

[Dean Saliba]

There is a poster on here who runs a great station called unsigned-online and he only plays music from people that are unsigned which means he does not have to pay royalties.

[DynamiteN]

If your broadcasting from canada cant you stream it anyway without paying royalties...I've seen that somewhere before

-Newton

[Baskido]

thats bullsh*t, i read alot about sunny (hitzradio) and he's from canada, and yes he pays the inf*ckingcredibly high RIAA rates...

</BasKido - Sex Is Like Software, Its Better When Its Free>

[BouncerDan_NR]

Paying royalties and paying the RIAA are 2 different things. You don't pay royalties to the RIAA, you pay them to the BMI, SECAP or ASCAP jsut to name the big ones.

[John_Shumate]

Technically, it is true. Its not required by Canadian Law for you to pay royalties.

[PartyZoneSoulja]

roalties. I play anyones music and if they want me to pay royalties they better find me first. anyone who wants royalties can kiss my royal a**.

[PartyZoneSoulja]

roalties. I play anyones music and if they want me to pay royalties they better find me first. anyone who wants royalties can kiss my royal a**.

[MegaRock]

Originally posted by PartyZoneSoulja
roalties. I play anyones music and if they want me to pay royalties they better find me first.

Give them time, they will. Fortunately at the moment they are a bit busy going after downloaders...but since they can fine you several thousand per song for each track they catch you play if they do decide to find you - well, you probably won't like it.

I don't mind paying the royaties but I make money off their music so it isn't a problem here.

[PartyZoneSoulja]

I use bearshare and I pay for the subscription to it so I guess in a way I do pay for my music. I pay $40.00 for the whole year. but i won't pay big bucks for the music. I figure it this way they can't get everyone cause the simple fact is they don't have enough man power to catch us all and when i say all I mean "Everyone with a Computer".Cause you know everyone in america or other countries has a computer. If they do it will take their whole lives and from what I hear they only go for those who they find with 5000 downloads or more. Those realy big time downloaders. and if they didn't want us doing it in the first place why sell us the tools to do it with. Such as CDRW an DVDRW and the Blank CD's and blank DVD's to do it with. Get a life those people you hear of getting busted have you ever met them? I think not. and if you did they where probably paid to say they was busted.

[rencal]

As long as our server is in Canada we do not have to pay royalties to the American organizations. We also don't have any royalties laws yet in Canada however, SOCAN is hoping to have theirs passed by next year and it will be retroactive to when you started your station. It is something like 10% of your income if you are a commercial station. Just a little bit of research I have done for the station I am starting.