even though the carp decision's a disappointment, it's still lower than the rate the RIAA had been getting in direct licenses, so webcasters actually save $$ over the status quo. it's the cost of bandwidth that's "killing" internet radio -- if by internet radio you simply mean small webcasters. afaik the total number of listener hours continues to climb, but aol, msn, and yahoo are carrying most of the freight.
- big jimmy 3-09-2002 5:11 pm

But it's more than radio broadcasters have to pay. So really it's like a penalty to broadcast over the net. But why?

And yes, I mean small webcasters. Well, actually I mean 'independent webcasters' but that works out to the same thing as small. I honestly don't care about aol, msn, yahoo etc.... I actually hope they do go out of business. That would be good for the market.

What I want is competition, and open markets. To have that we need low bariers to entry so that the big guys can't just legislate the innovators out of existence a priori.
- jim 3-10-2002 4:44 pm

Here's some more background on why the big guys need to crush independent internet radio: it might undermine the cozy payolla scheme they have built with big radio broadcasters.
- jim 3-14-2002 3:32 pm