Are home-madey kinda internet stations illegal?

the winamp style radio-cast ones?

ermm, yes and no. If you buy the songs legally rather than download them. And if it was to be streamed onto wmp

I think that's legal.

It should be illegal to broadcast the rap and crap that he will most probably be doing though.

errm, no, im not into all dat innit innit bla bla squit rap. i prefer stuff like Ol' skul hip hop, drum n bass, dance, house, acid house, reggae (whoo!), nu metal etc. etc. etc. (the list of etc.'s go on and on).

It wuld be a rite gud station called "radio terrintun" lol

106.9 Spastic FM.

i take it thats a radio station uve previously decided to make?

You'd actually have to speak so people could understand you though.

Can you do call-ins so we can ring up and rip the piss ?

I like your quick wit. But no it was a suggestion for yours.

im not speakin onnit!!! Yes, course u can do call ins, on the phone; on the internet. lol

if you read what it says on your CD it says "not for public broadcasting" so even if u paid for it, its still illigal

owwww, cherz anyways m8

Np

Indeed they would be illegal if you are playing copyrighted material. You'll find Radio stations have copyright agreements with the record labels which usually they will pay a blanket fee for.

Saying that I can't imagine the average Joe Bloggs pays for the tunes he plays on his internet radio station. So far I haven't seen much on people being taken to court for the copyright infringement. I think it's something the record companies overlook.

They pay perfoormance rights, it's not blanket fees as such.

If you play a Stone Roses track on a radio station, they have to pay a fee to the BPI (British Phonographic Institution) who keep traack of airplay and the money.

The fees vary, so the current #1, the fees might be a few hundred quid for a local station (per play) or a fiver for a hostpital radio station. Where as an album track from 10 years ago, might be a few pence.

FYI, shops and everyone else who plays copyrighted music in public has to pay these fees.

i spoke to the guys from ickleislands.co.uk #fight on terminet who i know quite well, and as far as i can get from them its a case of they havent been asked to pay so until they do get asked its nothing to worry about.

they should know theve been on air for almost 3years

i was hoping i could jus stick some music on the internet damn these stupid copywrite laws

mayb there sud b a gameslave radio? lol

lol you cant host the music on a publicly accessable area [ that is illegal]

but streaming is a black area because theirs soo many people doing it it would be impossable to chase everyone down for it

regards the gameSlave radio, it takes a lot of bandwidth to do it from a dedi server... i should know i setup a radio station for my old fyRe clan back in the good old days, and my 20GB/mo Shell bandwidth quota got maxed in under a week [and that was with less than 10 listners]

Bandwidth wouldn't be an issue for us, we have plenty, but we plan to use it for files.gameslave.co.uk