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Net radio had a close call last summer. The US Copyright Office was going to force webcasters to pay the record labels royalties of 70 cents a song for every thousand listeners. Lots of web stations, which are often just little one-person operations run out of someone's basement with virtually no budget whatsoever, were facing thousands of dollars a month in royalty fees, plus thousands more in back-royalties, since the fees were retroactive back to as far back as 1998.

Since then, while the royalty fee pricing structure has eased somewhat, there are still smaller webcasters who can't or won't pay the fees. One alternative is peer-to-peer pirate radio, and how anyone with a PC and a 56-Kbps connection can become a pirate jock.

(Via Wired Magazine)