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The End Of Gamers Radio May Be Near

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 31, 2007
CONTACT: Rod Hsiao, [email protected]

Live365 Joins Filing for Emergency Stay of New Royalty Rate Increases

Foster City, CA—Mark Lam, CEO of Live365 Inc. joined other Internet radio companies today to submit an affidavit in support of a motion for an emergency stay to halt a steep increase in sound recording royalty rates. On March 2nd, 2007 the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) imposed new royalty rates that threaten to bankrupt Internet radio stations like Live365.

“Look, when ALL Internet radio companies, large and small, are fighting the CRB decision the result is obviously flawed. Live365 is one of the top 4 royalty payers to SoundExchange and I can tell you we’ve never made a profit. Now they want to increase music label profits by arbitrarily increasing rates by 44%, 84%, 136% to 150% over four years! They also increased rates on National Public Radio and college stations. I don’t see any consideration for the public interest in the CRB’s deliberations: it was flawed.

Make no mistake, we want to pay a fair royalty to artists. We have been paying songwriters for their copyright royalties for years and you don’t hear complaints about that. But the new rates are insanely high and will kill Internet radio.”

Background on Live365
Established in 1997, Live365 (www.live365.com) is the world’s largest Internet radio network that hosts nearly 10,000 stations and streams music to more than 4 million listeners a month. Its mission is to make it affordable and easy for individuals to start their own radio stations and share their love for music to listeners around the world. Live365 has gone to great lengths to provide a legal and equitable means to stream music to listeners while paying royalties for the right to do so.

Here are some very interesting quotes from the filing:

Page 5: Appellants have contacted both the Clerk's Office and opposing counsel advising them of this Motion. Appellants have sought the consent of Appellees CRB and SoundExchange, Inc. ("SoundExchange") to the relief requested by this Application. Neither Appellee has provided consent.

Page 7: The irreparable harm manifests itself in different ways for different Appellants, but one common thread runs throughout: absent a stay prior to the effective initial payment date of July 15, 2007, the decision will cause wide-scale shutdowns of Appellants' webcasting offerings.

Page 8: Absent a stay, Live365 will be forced to shut down on July 15, 2007. (As will GR1 and GR2)

Page 8: For four of the SCWs (Small Commercial Webcasters) that participated before the CRB, royalties will increase from 11% of revenues under the pre-existing rate structure to 300% of revenues in 2006, 306.5% of revenues in 2007, and 345% of revenues in 2008 – royalty increases of over 2,000%.

Page 9: Unless stayed, the Final Determination will cause NPR substantially to reduce its online radio offerings as of July 15, 2007.

Page 9: The Final Determination will lead to the loss of many diverse sources of music. It will have a devastating impact on independent artists, small stations, and audiences. Quite literally, the date on which the Final Determination becomes effective will be "the day the music dies" for online radio. A stay pending appeal thus is urgently needed.

Page 20: The rates imposed by the CRB could not possibly comply with the "willing-buyer willing-seller" standard of 5 114(f)(2)(B), because no "willing buyer" would ever agree to the ruinous royalty levels contained in the Final Determination.

Page 23: The statutory factors demonstrate that online radio should be encouraged, not punished with higher royalties.

Page 23: There is no doubt that the Final Determination will have an imminent, certain, and devastating impact on online radio.

Discuss this in our Forums

Last Chance To Save Internet Radio

Dear Live365 Broadcasters,

On March 21st, I wrote you regarding the initial ruling by the Copyright Royalty
Board (CRB) announcing catastrophically high new royalty rates as
well as a $500/year minimum per station. Despite the outcry of nearly all
webcasters, the CRB denied the request for a rehearing and has proceeded
with their original ruling.

In response to these new and unfair fees, Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA)
introduced the Internet Radio Equality Act (HR 2060) on April 26th.

This bill will provide immediate relief from the
proposed new rates and can save thousands of Internet radio stations from going off
the air.

Live365 and the other members of the SaveNetRadio Coalition fully support this
proposal and are working diligently to see it turned into law. The
next step is to line up cosponsors for HR 2060, but time is running short.

We ask that you IMMEDIATELY:

CALL your Representative and ask them to cosponsor HR 2060 -- The Internet Radio
Equality Act. Click here to find your Representative's number:

NOTIFY -- YOUR LISTENERS, ARTISTS, and FRIENDS -- and have them call THEIR
Representatives with the same request to cosponsor HR 2060.

We thank you again for all of the great support so far. Let's keep the momentum
building into a crescendo that everyone can hear.


Sincerely,

Jason Stoddard
Director, Broadcasting
Live365.com

Ps. It looks like Live365 will be observing the "Day of Silence" on May 8th. More
information to come?

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Alien Ant Farm Wish Kerrang! – The Devil's Music Volume 3
ALLOS Collapsing Machine Across The Room
Anthrax Inside Out Volume 8 – The Threat is Real
A Perfect Circle Imagine Imagine (Single)
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A Perfect Circle The Outsider Thirteenth Step
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Atreyu Ex's & Oh's Ex's & Oh's (Single)
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Avenged Sevenfold Unholy Confessions Waking the Fallen
Avenged Sevenfold Bat Country City Of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold Beast And The Harlot City Of Evil
Bionic Jive I Shot Lucifer Armageddon Through Your Speaker
Bionic Jive Ricochet Armageddon Through Your Speaker
Bionic Jive Shut 'Em Down Armageddon Through Your Speaker
Black Label Society Rust Zakk Wylde's
Bloodsimple Sell Me Out A Cruel World
Bloodsimple The Leaving Song A Cruel World
Breaking Benjanmin So Cold So Cold
Bullet For My Valentine Her Voice Resides The Poison
Bullet For My Valentine Suffocating Under Words of Sorry The Poison
Chevelle Closure Wonder What's Next
Chevelle Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) This Type Of Thinking Could Do Us In
Clutch Profits Of Doom Blast Tyrant
Clutch Regulator Blast Tyrant
Clutch The Mob Goes Wild Blast Tyrant
Cold Suffocate Year of the Spider
Crossbreed Regretful Times Synthetic Division
Crossbreed Seasons Synthetic Division
Crossfade Cold Cold
Damageplan Pride New Found Power
Damageplan Save Me New Found Power
Danzig Mother Danzig
David Draiman of Disturbed Forsaken Queen Of The Damned
Deftones Change Queen of the Damned
Disturbed Awaken Believe
Disturbed Darkness Believe
Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
Disturbed Guarded Ten Thousand Fists
Disturbed Remember Believe
Disturbed Rise Believe
Disturbed Stupify The Sickness
Disturbed Voices The Sickness
Dope I Am Group Therapy
Drowning Pool Bodies Sinner
Drowning Pool Follow Sinner
Drowning Pool Mute Sinner
Drowning Pool Reminded Sinner
Drowning Pool Sinner Sinner
Drowning Pool Step Up Desensitized
Drowning Pool Tear Away Sinner
Endo Clean Sheets (And a Dirty Mind) Songs for the Restless
Endo Simple Lies Songs for the Restless
_fallen_ Feed off the Negative Half Of What You Wanted
Finger Eleven Stay In Shadow Finger Eleven
Flaw Payback Through The Eyes
Ghost in the Machine Lies Unknown
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Helmet Unsung Meantime
Sevendust Hero Next
Hurt Falls Apart Vol. 1
Hurt Overdose Vol. 1
Hurt Rapture Vol. 1
Hurt Unkind Vol. 1
Ill Nino This Time's For Real Confession
illuminati Machine illuminatimusic.com
Thrice Image Of The Invisible Vheissu
Killswitch Engage A Bid Farewell The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage Hope Is… The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage Rose Of Sharyn The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage Take This Oath The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage The End Of Heartache The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage When Darkness Falls The End Of Heartache
Korn A.D.I.D.A.S. Life Is Peachy
Korn Did My Time Take A Look In The Mirror
Korn Freak On A Leash Follow The Leader
Korn Here To Stay Untouchables
Korn No One's There Untouchables
Korn Thoughtless Untouchables
Limp Bizkit Almost Over Results May Vary
Lollipop Lust Kill Like A Disease My So Called Knife
Lollipop Lust Kill Personal Jesus My So Called Knife
Manifest Destiny As I Am Within
Manifest Destiny Dethroned Within
Manifest Destiny Storm Is Forming Within
Marilyn Manson Coma White Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson Disposable Teens Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
Marilyn Manson I Don't Like The Drugs Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson Rock Is Dead The Matrix Soundtrack
Marilyn Manson Tainted Love Not Another Teen Movie ST
Marilyn Manson The Nobodies Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
Motograter Down Motograter
Mudvayne Forget To Remember Lost And Found
Mudvayne Happy Lost And Found
Mudvayne Mercy, Severity The End of All Things to Come
Mudvayne Not Falling The End of All Things to Come
Mudvayne World So Cold The End of All Things to Come
Mushroomhead Crazy XIII
Mushroomhead Solitaire/Unraveling XX
NGB Cold2 The Spiral Eyes
Nine Inch Nails Hurt The Downward Spiral
Nonpoint Bullet With a Name To The Pain
Nonpoint Move Now Recoil
Nonpoint There's Going to be a War! To The Pain
Nonpoint Truth Recoil
No One Chemical No One
Orgy Can't Take This Punk Statik Paranoia
Pantera Cementary Gates Cowboys From Hell
Pantera Walk Vulgar Display Of Power
Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder Getting Away With Murder
Rage Against The Machine Freedom Rage Against The Machine
Rammstein Amerika Reise, Reise
Rammstein Engel Mutter
Rammstein Ich Will Mutter
Rammstein Links Mutter
Rammstein Mann gegen Mann Rosenrot
Rammstein Rosenrot Rosenrot
Rammstein Sonne Mutter
Rammstein Spring Rosenrot
Rammstein Wo bist du Rosenrot
Rikets Hollywood Anything For The Devil
Rikets the murder The Best of War and More
Rob Zombie Demon Speeding The Sinister Urge
Rob Zombie Foxy Foxy Educated Horses
Rob Zombie Superbeast Hellbilly Deluxe
Seether Driven Under Disclaimer II
Seether Gasoline Disclaimer II
Sevendust Angel's Son Animosity
Sevendust Disgrace Seasons
Sevendust Follow Animosity
Sevendust Gone Seasons
Sevendust Praise Animosity
Sevendust Seasons Seasons
Sevendust Separate Seasons
Seven Wiser Life Seven Wiser
Seven Wiser Sick Seven Wiser
Shadows Fall What Drives The Weak War Within
Shinedown 0.45 Leave A Whisper
Shinedown Heroes Us And Them
Shinedown Save Me Us And Them
Skillet Savior Collide
Slipknot Duality Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
Slipknot Left Behind Iowa
Slipknot My Plague (New Abuse Mix) Resident Evil Soundtrack
Slipknot (SIC) Slipknot
Slipknot Spit It Out Slipknot
Slipknot The Nameless Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
Slipknot Three Nil Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
Slipknot Vermilion Pt. 2 Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
Slipknot Vermilion Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
Slipknot Wait and Bleed Slipknot
Soil Breaking Me Down Scars
Soil Halo Scars
Soil Pride Redefine
Soil Redefine Redefine
Disturbed Sons Of Plunder Ten Thousand Fists
SOUND&FURY Perfectly Wrong reflections
SPLYT The Other Side Figureheads
State of Being Take Me Away Haywire
Static X Black and White Machine
Static-X I'm The One CD Promo (WB)
Static-X Permanence The Hot Stuff: The Noise of Su
Stereomud Get Me Out Perfect Self
Stereomud Pain Perfect Self
Stereomud Steppin Away Perfect Self
Stone Sour 1st Person Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour 30/30-150 Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour Inhale Stone Sour
Stone Sour Made Of Scars Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour Sillyworld Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour Socio Come What(ever) May
System of a Down Innervision Steal This Album!
System of a Down Spiders System of a Down
The Accident Experiment Sick Love Letter United We Fear
Thrice Send Me An Angel Punk Goes Pop
Tool Parabola Lateralus
Tool Prison Sex Undertow
Tool Sober Undertow
Trapt Headstrong Trapt
Trapt Stand Up Someone In Control
TWYTCH Hatred Light Of Day
Underride Glass Eye Necessary Evil
Underride Watching You Bleed Horsepower Kills
White Zombie More Human than Human ASTRO-CREEP:2000 Songs of Love

2007 Small Broadcasters License

Help us take Gamers Radio, GR1 – Heavy Metal and GR2 – Punk Rock, to the next level and get a chance to win one of three Free Ipods!

In January 2007, we will be eligible to file for a Small Broadcasters License, however the license is going to cost us $2000. That is a lot of money for something we do for fun. Here are some things we can do with this License.

500 Free Listener Slots instead of the current 100. Think of the times you have tried to listen, but the station was full.

10GB of song storage instead of the current 300MB. We would love to add more tons more great songs to the station, but we have been limited on space. Imagine what cool things we can do with 10GB of music storage!

We will be eligible to be listed in the ITunes Radio Directory. Not only is this cool, but if you listen via ITunes, there is no login to Live365!

We will be eligible to be listed on the Microsoft Media Player Radio Station website. Again, this would be cool!

You will be able to listen to Gamers Radio on Tivo!

As you can see, there are a lot of great things available to us with the Small Broadcasters License. With your help, we can achieve this goal.

As an added bonus, everyone who donates will be eligible to win a Free Ipod!

If you want to help us take Gamers Radio to the next level, please donate via PayPal. Please keep in mind that PayPal charges us a fee. 

Contest Details:

Under $1,000 = New 1GB Ipod Shuffle
$1,000-$1,999 = New 2GB Ipod Nano
$2,000 = 30GB Video Ipod

* All dollar amounts are total donations after fee's. 

Minimum $2.00 donation to be eligible for the contest.
Contest ends January 31st, 2007.

This contest is open to anyone who can legally participate based on your local laws. If you are not a US resident, you can still win, but you will be responsible for shipping and all applicable taxes.

Top 13 Tracks As Of August 28, 2006

# Artist Song Title Album
1 Rammstein Mann gegen Mann Rosenrot
2 Pantera Walk Vulgar Display Of Power
3 Helmet Unsung Meantime
4 Pantera Cementary Gates Cowboys From Hell
5 Nonpoint Truth Recoil
6 Mudvayne Forget To Remember Lost And Found
7 Killswitch Engage When Darkness Falls The End Of Heartache
8 Killswitch Engage The End Of Heartache The End Of Heartache
9 Disturbed Stupify The Sickness
10 Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
11 Deftones Change Queen of the Damned
12 illuminati Machine illuminatimusic.com
13 Mushroomhead Crazy XIII

This list is generated weekly from a ranking based on your votes in the Live365 playlist window.

GR1 Station Update

We just updated Gamers Radio GR1 with a bunch of new tunes including 3 new Indie Bands from MySpace!

Hurt – Unkind – Vol. 1
Hurt – Rapture – Vol. 1
Hurt – Overdose – Vol. 1
Hurt – Falls Apart – Vol. 1

Stone Sour – Socio – Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour – Sillyworld – Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour – Made Of Scars – Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour – 30/30-150 – Come What(ever) May
Stone Sour – 1st Person – Come What(ever) May

Shinedown – Save Me – Us And Them
Shinedown – Heroes – Us And Them

Rammstein – Wo bist du – Rosenrot
Rammstein – Spring – Rosenrot
Rammstein – Rosenrot – Rosenrot
Rammstein – Mann gegen Mann – Rosenrot
Nonpoint – Theres Going to be a War! – To The Pain
Nonpoint – Bullet With a Name – To The Pain

Marilyn Manson – I Dont Like The Drugs – Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson – Coma White – Mechanical Animals

Killswitch Engage – When Darkness Falls – The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage – Take This Oath – The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage – Rose Of Sharyn – The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage – Hope Is… – The End Of Heartache
Killswitch Engage – A Bid Farewell – The End Of Heartache

MySpace.com/Underride
Underride – Glass Eye – Necessary Evil
Underride – Watching You Bleed – Horsepower Kills

MySpace.com/Rikets
Rikets – the murder – The Best of War and More
Rikets – Hollywood – Anything For The Devil

MySpace.com/MightyMD
Manifest Destiny – Storm Is Forming – Within
Manifest Destiny – Dethroned – Within
Manifest Destiny – As I Am – Within

Top 13 Tracks As Of August 7, 2006

# Artist Song Title Album
1 Slipknot The Nameless Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
2 Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
3 Orgy Cant Take This Punk Statik Paranoia
4 Disturbed Stupify The Sickness
5 Disturbed Guarded Ten Thousand Fists
6 Slipknot Vermilion Pt. 2 Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
7 Korn Did My Time Take A Look In The Mirror
8 Deftones Change Queen of the Damned
9 Tool Parabola Lateralus
10 Slipknot Left Behind Iowa
11 Rage Against The Machine Freedom Rage Against The Machine
12 Mudvayne Mercy, Severity The End of All Things to Come
13 Mudvayne Happy Lost And Found

This list is generated weekly from a ranking based on your votes in the Live365 playlist window.

Top 13 Tracks As Of July 31, 2006

# Artist Song Title Album
1 Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
2 Slipknot The Nameless Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
3 Slipknot Vermilion Pt. 2 Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
4 David Draiman of Disturbed Forsaken Queen Of The Damned
5 Drowning Pool Bodies Sinner
6 Deftones Change Queen of the Damned
7 Rage Against The Machine Freedom Rage Against The Machine
8 Orgy Cant Take This Punk Statik Paranoia
9 Nonpoint Move Now Recoil
10 Disturbed Sons Of Plunder Ten Thousand Fists
11 Disturbed Guarded Ten Thousand Fists
12 Shinedown .45 Leave A Whisper
13 Mudvayne Happy Lost And Found

This list is generated weekly from a ranking based on your votes in the Live365 playlist window.

Top 13 Tracks As Of July 23rd, 2006

# Artist Song Title Album
1 Slipknot The Nameless Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
2 Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
3 Slipknot Vermilion Pt. 2 Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
4 Stereomud Steppin Away Perfect Self
5 Rage Against The Machine Freedom Rage Against The Machine
6 Korn A.D.I.D.A.S. Life Is Peachy
7 Drowning Pool Bodies Sinner
8 David Draiman of Disturbed Forsaken Queen Of The Damned
9 Thrice Image Of The Invisible Vheissu
10 Slipknot Vermilion Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
11 Slipknot Left Behind Iowa
12 Slipknot Duality 9.0: Live [Disc 2]
13 Shinedown .45 Leave A Whisper

This list is generated weekly from a ranking based on your votes in the Live365 playlist window.

Top 13 Tracks As Of July 17, 2006

# Artist Song Title Album
1 Slipknot The Nameless Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
2 Drowning Pool Bodies Sinner
3 Thrice Image Of The Invisible Vheissu
4 Korn A.D.I.D.A.S. Life Is Peachy
5 David Draiman of Disturbed Forsaken Queen Of The Damned
6 Slipknot Vermilion Pt. 2 Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
7 Slipknot My Plague (New Abuse Mix) Resident Evil Soundtrack
8 Shinedown .45 Leave A Whisper
9 Mudvayne Happy Lost And Found
10 Disturbed Down With The Sickness The Sickness
11 Stereomud Steppin Away Perfect Self
12 Slipknot Vermilion Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
13 Slipknot Left Behind Iowa

This list is generated weekly from a ranking based on your votes in the Live365 playlist window.

Calling All Music Fans!

We are starting a new contest at Gamers Radio. If you like music, then drop by and give us a hand at testing it out. Here are the details.

We are going to start a new monthly contest. For the months of July and August, it is a dry run only. September will be official with a $10 Itunes Gift Card or a 3 Month VIP subscription to Live365 as the prize. Winner will get to choose.

The Rules:

1. I will post a single word from the lyrics of a song at random intervals.
2. You may make one guess with the Artist and Song Title after each word is posted.
3. We will keep track of the winners and the last week of the month will be a “Name That Tune” type contest.
4. Songs can be from any Rock or Pop Genre from any time period.

Final Round
1. When the final round starts, only previous winners for the month will be allowed to participate.
2. Each winner will tell me how many words they can name the tune in.
3. Once all winners have posted, the lowest number gets first guess.
4. If they miss it, the next highest number will get a guess.
5. There is a catch though. Only one word will be added after each miss.
6. If all contestants miss, we will start over. However, we will pick a different part of the song for the next round.

Drop by and check out our new forums!

Top 13 Tracks As Of July 10, 2006

# Artist Song Title Album
1 Slipknot Duality 9.0: Live [Disc 2]
2 Slipknot Wait and Bleed Slipknot
3 Korn Freak On A Leash Follow The Leader
4 David Draiman of Disturbed Forsaken Queen Of The Damned
5 Strata Never There Strata
6 Slipknot Vermilion Pt. 2 Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
7 Mudvayne Not Falling The End of All Things to Come
8 Killswitch Engage The End Of Heartache The End Of Heartache
9 Breaking Benjanmin So Cold So Cold
10 System of a Down Innervision Steal This Album!
11 Slipknot Spit It Out Slipknot
12 Slipknot Duality Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses)
13 Slipknot (SIC) Slipknot

This list is generated weekly from a ranking based on your votes in the Live365 playlist window.