Legal issues in setting up an internet based radio station

Legal Minefield
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As you may know I currently been doing a radio station called Tweaked for your Listening Pleasure and I asked a friend of mine called Dave over at Amazing World Music (yep, same person that provides the music in my videos) about the legal side of it and lets just say there was barely anything out there when it comes to online radio in the United Kingdom.

With that in mind, Dave went out researching and has compiled a report on what he found out. All credit goes to him and hopefully it helps someone else. Just remember none of us are lawyers and well, we can be wrong. Any comments, different view points or if anyone actually is a lawyer in this field – please do comment as we would love know the law exactly.

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Saving money for your website

The problem with faster and faster Internet connections is that people have come to expect more and more images, audio and videos on websites and it has got to the point in which we webmasters have to spend more and more money on bandwidth!

While this is to be expected, it is quite a sad fact that these new content such as audio, videos etc do not bring in much of an income so I am here today to give YOU some of the best tips in keeping your bandwidth down.

Images

Images are one of the main reasons for such high bandwidth usage. So what we do is make images smaller and compress them and the user experience does not change. Below is a normal-sized image and to the side is another image showing the image using my tips.

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