Month: October 2002
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Better Webcast Fees for Small Webcasters Ready, but Can the Smallest Webcasters Escape Detection?
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…
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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…
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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…
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more on DC harrassment of journalists…
Matt has a few more articles and resources on this story blogged at machination.
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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…
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New Look, Server
It looks like the DNS change has propagated through most of the North American Internet, and so today is the first day of seeing the new page for most of you. As I alluded to before, I’ve changed blog software to Moveable Type, which runs on the new server and provides a much more flexible…