This is truly a tragedy. Internet radio is a wonderful thing and the RIAA is just a bunch of greedy bastards. I wish they would stop trying to defend themselves and figure out a decent way to make money through the technology that is causing them to wet the bed at night.
If you can't beat em, call the lawyers.” – andy.
USA Today: Royalty fees killing most Internet radio stations. On June 20, a copyright appeals board set a rate of seven-hundredths of a cent per song, per listener. For many stations, run by music fans for music fans, that works out to thousands of dollars more than they make. [Tomalak's Realm]