Sun 12 Oct 2008
Turned off for now
Posted by timojhen under randomHad been considering what to do for a while now, and it was “sudo shutdown now” time.
I’m not sure how much interest there is in the stream, hosting it from my house is a burden, and I’m not too motivated to keep working at it. I’ll let things settle for a bit and see how I feel. I was (somewhat) excited at the start, since it was a great opportunity to play with some technology I didn’t know well. It’s a bit old hat to me now, so there’s not a lot in it for me.
On top of my general ambivalence, ASCAP (another of the crony arms of the RIAA mob) has been sending me angry letters about how I owe them fucking royalties. Serious. A bunch of unreleased / forgotten / crap punk recordings with no redeeming value and they feel like they own it somehow. I’ve asked that they clarify which artists I’ve played who they represent (so I can immediately cease playing them of course) without a response, but this isn’t something I could afford to dump a lot of cash in to.
If you feel strongly about it (i.e. “holy shit man… it’s the only way I can make it through the workday”) let me know. I’m sure I could keep it going without much sweat.
contact : timojhen (at) killedbydeath dot org
otherwise…
c’ya later alligator!!
8 Responses to “Turned off for now”
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jman Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 3:30 amAw man, kbd is the only streaming internet radio I listen to. You think maybe you could burn the songs on a dvd for me or something?
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timojhen Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 7:41 amLemme see how big they ended up being. Think it was more than would fit on a DVD, but imagine something is possible.
If it turns out that people still want it to continue, I’ll keep it alive. Just couldn’t tell how much it meant to anyone.
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Kris Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 10:42 amthat sucks.. was really good radio station and i listened to it very often… but if you still are intressted in sending punk/hc/radio… me and som guys here in germany are working on a diy projekt which streams radio… got own server soon… contact me if you are intressted
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borndead1 Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 2:50 pmSad day for me. Greatest radio station of all time. Hope you will start up again.
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timojhen Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 3:15 pmI’ll fire it up again, as I said I’m certainly not opposed to doing it. Will keep it going until the ASCAP situation gets weird, since I’m not sure I could dump a bunch of cash into it.
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One-Eyed Doll Says:
February 16th, 2009 at 9:15 pmWOW just found you on BYOFL! YOU’RE AWESOME!!!!
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AnyWaveDave Says:
December 18th, 2012 at 8:11 pmKilled by Death suddenly is promting me for a username and login! Yet I can find nothing on your site as to how to get one. This is the best f–king internet radio station ever and it’s killing me to not be able to listen to it! I have 205.188.215.227:8094 as the stream URL. Hopefully I just have an outdated one.
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timojhen Says:
December 18th, 2012 at 9:48 pmSorry about that AnyWaveDave. It was down on my side (box turned off) so that’s my bad. Should be fixed now, and your URL was correct.
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