Singapore’s web radio services go offline over royalty issue
By CHUA HIAN HOU (The-STAR-Online)
URL-http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/3/11/nation/20090311094036&sec=nation
SINGAPORE: A dispute over licence fees has forced most of Singapore’s radio stations to stop streaming online.
Following an amendment to the Copyright Act last November, the Recording Industry Performance Singapore (RIPS) asked radio broadcasters to pay an annual licensing fee if they wanted to continue their Internet radio service.
The name gave this article such irony, RIPS- resting the internet-media in peace?
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