When injustice becomes law...
As the US Government's webcasting royalty rates force small hobbyist-run
streaming music stations offline, a new generation of
peer-to-peer streaming tools are taking lessons from both Napster and
Radio Caroline, and threatening
a new age of underground pirate radio, challenging the Clear Channel homogeneity of big, trustworthy, RIAA-approved corporate webcasters.
Meanwhile, the RIAA are planning to
target individual MP3 swappers. And the MPAA's pet
congressman is preparing a bill to give the copyright cartels
letters of marque, or permission to attack file-sharing computers with legal impunity.