Re. the recent rapacious "broadcast" royalties imposed on internet radio in the US, it occurs to me it wouldn't be that hard to do the following and it would probably avoid the royalties even under the current imbalanced IP laws: - have the station broadcast it's own content (commentary) - have the station broadcast song titles, song authors, CDDB serial numbers - the user would use third-party software capable of playing the recommended track, such as: - coincidentally owning the CD and having the CD in a CD jukebox - owning (or not) the CD and having a mp3 rip of the track on hard disk - queueing the track for download via kazaa examples of the last are the morpheus plugin for winamp (I think it was morpheus that had such a plugin -- though it is probably no longer supported with the morpheus protocol switch). For performance reasons the station could even pre-queue the tracks during their commentary and then trigger the start of play after the track has had some time to be selected by the jukebox / streaming buffer fill from kazaa. Seems to me this would pass current IP laws because it is like a radio station which broadcast the name of a song and the user is expected to insert the CD in his player and play along to keep up with the commentary, only automated and with open APIs for the "load and play this CD track" instructions so people can hook it up to whatever is convenient to them. Adam