Who got the brilliant idea to raise taxes on Internet radio stations?

[BurtWorm]

http://www.savenetradio.org/act_now/index.html

What was the ingenius reason behind it? Does anyone know the actual answer? I think we all know the vague, cynical answer, but I'd like someone to name names. What fucker came up with this idea?

[NYCGirl]

1. The RIAA. NT

[BurtWorm]

2. But they're not in the government. What genius in government is doing their bidding.

Do you know?

[mitchum]

3. Members of Congress from Tennessee, California, and New York would be...

a good bet, Burt
They have traditionally been the water carriers for the RIAA

[BurtWorm]

4. Well, reading a bit more about it, it's clear that this is a regulatory, not legislative decision

so I'm not sure what role members of Congress had. It's a strange regulatory structure. Is the Library of Congress like Dick Cheney, neither Executive nor Legislative? I don't quite get how this decision came to be on the plate of the Copyright Review Board. One thing I do get is their equating web radio with web downloading is totally inapt, so there are either three morons on this board or someone somewhere has undue influence on them.