Music Industry Group Creates Net Neutrality Website

The Future of Music Coalition is collecting network neutrality shout-outs from musicians, including R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Dead Presidents, and others on a new Web site.

The group has long supported codifying network neutrality principles ( it launched Rock the Net in 2007). The FCC's Democratic majority is proposing to do just that in a proposed rulemaking launched in October.

In addition to collecting the comments, the site's goal is to pass those along to the FCC as comments filed in that network neutrality proceeding (comments are due Jan. 14 and replies March 5).

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Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.