Ok, well it looks like it's "been done." While the RIAA didn't exactly get what they want, they got a significant percentage of it. So, from here forward, it looks like it's going to be rather easy for them to shut down Internet radio stations.

Here on the Library of Congress' site we see the final decision to "tax" Internet broadcasters.


All I can say is that these money hungry morons really suck. Because of them, I guess, I won't be spending money on new albums that I happen to hear on previously cool Internet radio stations


(Sorry for the blatant SomaFM links - just one feature on the Internet that I am going to surely miss... no way he can afford the $500 per day tax - that's like $US15k a month... ouch... makes those redundant T's seem cheap, I'd imagine)