As a grad student in a distance learning program, I spend a lot of time at my PC. As a music junkie, I spend a lot of time listening to music, old and new, on CDs and Ipods and the computer and on whatever else I can configure to play some tunes. Like many of you trapped in cubicles, I turn to internet radio, as a sound alternative at those times when my music collection seems boring and old. Pandora is my current fave.
As the music industry impotently rages against everything around it while CD sales drop, they are lashing out against internet radio providers, who are being asked to pay ridiculous royalty fees to artists (read: record companies) for the privilege of playing their music. Which they already do. But to pay 10 times (or more) what terrestrial radio providers pay? Read more about this current battle in this great article in the SF Weekly.
