Due to these http://www.agreementslease.com estimate increases, it has 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, of the old school established a Canadian site that they believe falls outside U.S. regulatory and royalty rules."

US Internet broadcasters organized a nationwide coalition to oppose the rate hike and in agency of the Internet Radio Equality Act. On June 26, legion of them participated in a "Day of Silence" — either shutting off their audio streams entirely, or replacing their streams with static, ocean song or other ambience, interspersed with brief metropolitan service announcements — to focus industry on the consequences of the impending rate hike.