What will end up happening is the larger more successful internet radio stations will be bought up by the record companies who will then turn them into clones of traditional radio stations playing endless drivel over and over again. The reason I listen to internet radio is so that I can listen to music I like by musicians I know and also to hear new music in the same genre which might just make me go out and buy a CD. I don't want to listen to the latest dirge from Justin Lumberjack 25 times a day, nor listen to some witless DJ spouting endlessly about his dog. I don't need to know that George Bush doesn't know where Iraq is on a map every 15 minutes and I don't have any need whatsover to know what the weather is doing in Witchita - I just want to listen to music. This is a perfect opportunity for the music business to make money and let us listen to music - stream the music over the internet, allow the listener to choose Pandora style, for free, forget about DRM simply cut each track short by a minute or overlay a jingle 2-3 times during each song to render them useless for recording. If I like a track by a band I haven't heard before I can go buy it from the record store knowing it will be $15 well spent. What I won't do is spend that $15 on a CD by a band whos music I've never heard.