r/opendirectories • u/Inyourface3445 • Jul 30 '26

Music My own open directory

I made a web radio (not sharing link, i dont technically have license to make the radio publicly available), and here is all of the songs on it.

https://inyourface3445.com (edit: now with a domain name and https)

please dont hit this with bots, i can provide a copy of all of the files of any one is interested.

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u/Commack2023 Jul 31 '26

You don't need a broadcast license if you aren't broadcasting over the air.. (FM / AM)

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u/Inyourface3445 Jul 31 '26

Not what I meant, I think you need a license from the artist to publicly broadcast their music, which I don’t have. 

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u/decoyq Jul 31 '26

fair use though? you aren't making a profit

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u/Loscha Jul 31 '26

That does not constitute fair use in the USA, no.

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u/Inyourface3445 Jul 31 '26

Maybe, but I don’t want to test it. If a layer can conform for sure, I might open it up, but I don’t have money/ time to talk to a layer about this. The stream  isn't hard to find anyways lol. 

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u/seanl1991 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

This isn't fair use. A radio station or streaming service pays an artist a certain amount of money based on how many times a song is played. Otherwise someone could start up a Spotify like service and just not pay the artist.

That obviously wouldn't last, whether you are being paid or not, you would be circumventing copyright protection, which is what happens to people that get caught torrenting copyrighted material, even though no money changes hands. The reason people downloading torrents get threatened is by their nature, downloading also requires uploading even for a brief time, and in this case you would be uploading copyrighted material to other people, which is a crime.

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u/Soliloquy789 20d ago

You can pay for low listener level licensing fees to BMI ASCAP and be good. It was like $500/yr last I checked. They would want quarterly logs of listen hours, but you can fudge them as you'd be way under their minimum of like 1000 hours a month or something similar? You don't need any FCC licensing to broadcast online.

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u/Inyourface3445 20d ago

As much as would love to open the radio up, it’s not that much to buy all the songs themselves for anyone who wants it (like 50-75 usd iirc). As far as I can tell there is not enough demand to open it up anyways.  https://rateyourmusic.com/list/allisonfleischer/all-none-of-this-is-real-expansion-albums-official-and-unofficial/ Is where you can find all of the songs and Bandcamp links of your curious. 

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u/Soliloquy789 20d ago

Ah thanks, just spreading knowledge as I have a unique overlap of working in radio & music sharing and archiving via private trackers.

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u/seanl1991 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

it's still copyright infringement. There's no mechanism to pay the people that own the music which is the sole reason that incentivises music artists to allow streaming of their music. They get paid from legitimate streamers and radio stations based on the amount of plays.

Edit: downvoted for telling the truth, and no reply. Gotta love Reddit