Under the state of emergency, Thai authorities are closing hundreds of Web sites as well as newspapers and broadcasters opposed to the government.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

The sharp rises in royalty fees could be "fatal" to the nascent industry, a coalition of web broadcasters has claimed.

BBC: NEWS | Technology | 'Day of silence' for US web radio

The decision to increase fees was made by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) which reviewed an earlier decision to increase royalty fees collected from web broadcasters.

BBC: NEWS | Technology | 'Day of silence' for US web radio

Under the terms of a 2009 agreement, Pandora and other web broadcasters must pay out up to 25 per cent of their revenues to copyright holders via SoundExchange, a royalty-collection organization affiliated with the Recording Industry Ass. of America.

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