Germany to Ask Internet Streams With 500+ Viewers for TV Broadcast License

by Markus Schlegel | July 17, 2008 at 03:54 am
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Germany's Landesmedienanstalten, stoneage bureaucratic bodies from the age of scarce airwaves, will enact legislation asking every live Internet broadcaster reaching an audience of more than 500 viewers or
listeners to obtain a TV license from the state.

Pre- 1989 Romania, here comes the capitalist control state.

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An alternative link to the audio to be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/german-mediacraze

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Caoimhin1
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at 04:06 on July 17th, 2008

Markus Schlegel, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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Markus Schlegel

Hi Sanjay,

sorry for the hassle.

I am uploading from a PDA, the E-Mail engine does not seem to work for uploading files, which is why I give the alternate link.

If you could add the media from the MP3 alternate link, I would much appreciate your help.

Greetings,
Markus

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Jordan Yerman

I tried to download the file directly from Utterz, but to no avail... I guess if they generated a bazillion podcasts, their bandwidth usage would be through the roof!

Jordan Yerman
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at 04:45 on July 17th, 2008

Aside from the fact that the Internet is not TV, 500 viewers is a very low threshold.

rahul
rahul
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at 07:32 on July 17th, 2008

Markus Schlegel, I like this story. It's good stuff.

urbano411
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at 08:40 on July 17th, 2008

Markus Schlegel, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Zlender
Zlender
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at 08:28 on July 17th, 2008

Markus Schlegel, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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Amy Judd

500 viewers is very low in my opinion. What a strange ruling!

Tanasha
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at 09:54 on July 17th, 2008

Markus Schlegel, I like this story. It's good stuff.


Is this already in process or can there still be opposittion?

Heritage
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at 10:15 on July 17th, 2008

Markus Schlegel, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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Markus Schlegel

@Tanasha to my knowledge, there is very little to at least stop Bavaria from going ahead with this, starting August 1st.

A debate is developing last minute in the blogosphere, it seems.

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