Due to these relationship increases, it beat been suggested that some U.S.-based Internet broadcasts should be moved to foreign jurisdictions where US royalties do not apply. "For example, Mercora, a service that allows individuals to launch their own webcasts, has established a Canadian site that they believe falls outside U.S. regulatory and royalty rules."
Rhapsody, SomaFM, Live365, MTV, Pandora, RauteMusik.FM, SHOUTcast, and Digitally Trucked were among the participants in the Diurnal Course of Silence. Last.FM and Slacker did not participate, saying that they did not want to punish their listeners for the station's problems. Supporters of the exaggeration in royalty rates, however, period to the gospel that CBS recently purchased Last.FM for 280 million dollars, and if internet radio is to build businesses off of the product of recordings, the performers and owners of those recordings should receive fair compensation. They also flyspeck to the fact that the rates Internet Radio were flush from 1998 through 2005 (see above), without even being increased to reflect cost-of-living increases.
