Internet radio is about to have its stream blocked, dammed, and dried up. No more streaming web radio. What can we do about this? Maybe nothing. Read on for the grim reality.
Royalty fees are retroactive to October 1998. According to Internet radio industry figures, a midsize independent Webcaster with an average audience of 1,000 would owe $525,600.
The latest "Web 2.0" site (based on the definition that it does something redundant, but through a browser) blogmusik.net is actually kind of cute. It gives you a virtual ipod and a big library of mp3's you can search, play and create playlists of.