...will likely have a serious impact on Internet radio stations.

http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/030207/index.shtml

There is a slashdot discussion happening also:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/0930245&threshold=3

I'm personally hoping this will place greater emphasis on non RIAA music! Competition is good right? We are overdue for our next new sound, perhaps it lies there?

Edit: (From the slashdot discussion)

[Where do I find about new / different music then?]

The more *different* music people buy, the worse it is for the RIAA associates. Consider: if people by about 100M records a year (a number I just made up whole-cloth for illustory purposes), is it better for the RIAA members to sell 10,000 each of 10,000 records, or 5M each of 20 records?

And is it better for them to have new types of music (rap or grunge, for instance) popping up, or to have music that all sounds the same? Considering that it's difficult to select the next hot-selling group or musician if it's a "new" style of music, I suspect they want it all to sound the same.

The entire point of the RIAA controlling radio playlists is to push the music of a few select people, from a narrow style. That's partly why "country" sounds so much like pop these days, I think, because of the homogenizing affect of the RIAA.

But maybe I'm just overestimating their power, and underestimating the lack of musical taste of most of America.

---Interesting analysis, IMHO!

So I've been watching all sorts of things on this issue. But something remains unclear to me;

Are Clear Channel, AOL and Yahoo subject to the same ruling as it stands now?

Yes.

Thanks.

I'm here to help.

I'm staying with Live 365. I don't get many visitors, but at least the royalties are covered.
http://www.live365.com/stations/macradiofm