However, I'm not inclined to accept paying SomaFM for setting one of their URLs to my parcel, and even less if the radio channel I choose is playing commercials that hit an hypothetical audience at a parcel I own and pay for. I run a 24/7 media stream off a $11.50/mo OVH server, using a combo of open source software, including icecast(Stream server) and Liquidsoap(Source server). There are plenty of other media streams out there, as well as the possibility to set one up yourself. In the off chance that some people may believe that Linden Lab should pay SomaFM: It is not Linden Lab who owes royalties to SomaFM, but rather, the residents who choose to play music on their parcels. In the end, it is SomaFM's servers, they have the final say on what may or may not be done with their bandwidth. If I had a media service, and people took the URL and placed it else where on their parcels, I would likely be upset too, because I pay for the server. Residents who place the music URLs in their parcel are likely causing them to lose revenue. SomaFM *very likely* as advertisements on their website. Website: Address: 2513 6th Ave Altoona, PA 16602 Telephone: 8149436112 Add this radio's widget to your website Broadcast Monitoring by ACRCloud Related Stations WHB Sports Radio 810 AM WRRK 96.9 Bob FM Beam FM - Adult Hits WDAF The Wolf 106.5 FM KCSP Sports Radio 610 AM WRKY Rocky 104.9 FM 1. Please do keep in mind that SomaFM does have to pay for servers, as well as "MP3 licenses"(even though the patent is expired, they still trying to get people to pay for it), royalties for the music that is played, and the DJs that work to curate/mix the music. Now, why would I donate to a station for a channel I can't have playing at my SL place? If we can't have their stations playing at our place, we'll pick some other(s). I know that some of their stations channels depend on donations. It's funny that they thought LL and SL users would care. Maybe they reached a dominant position on internet radio streaming - or they think they did - but I'm sure they have no clue about how SL (and SL viewers) work. I don't know if they have financial problems or not but if they do, that's not the way to have them solved. (They are, objectively, idiots-but to be fair, they're probably idiots with financial problems.) SomaFM should take that up with Firestorm and see how far it gets. There is no streaming into SL, there is no streaming through SL, there is only streaming from URLs posted as a courtesy in SL's parcel metadata.Īrguably viewers might be in a position to pay for the content they stream based on those URLs, inasmuch as they actually make a connection to the client machine's audio streaming libraries. SomaFM may have some fantasy that Linden Lab is responsible for the streaming content to which parcels may link, but that's not true, and no more true than the fact Google may return SomaFM URLs or we might post one on social media.
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