Frankly, I like their mix. New Music Tuesdays, the Mountain Music Lounge (accoustic renditions of lots of my favorites) — these are all things that my local “dinosaur rock” radio stations don’t have. So I buy their CDs, listen to the station, etc.

Would I PAY for it? Don’t know.

Free internet radio is apparently a poor business model, an attempt to play some repetitive advertising at people who also probably favor Limewire over iTunes.

I do agree that retroactive increases are pretty despicable, but apparently that didn’t concern Yahoo! since they just renewed my contract for LaunchCast plus. Apparently they have a sound enough business model.

What stations should run is anything that connects with their audience and makes the point that the copyright board decision looks unbalanced and possibly a tad cozy. They also should be instructive on what their listeners can do.

If they can activate a significant public response - and they should be able to - they need use community building tools to shape a strategy and co-ordinate it implementation to show that this issue has legs.

They should build on any perceptions of favoritism or special relationships in government decision making - and a divide and conquer strategy with artists and labels. For the latter identify which are susceptible to public pressure from concert or label boycots and co-ordinate.

Unfortunately the wheels of government are slow - and July 15 will come and go without any changes - so the strategy has to be long term.

24 hours of silence - while it makes a point - is probably 22 hours more than necessary and much less engaging than it needs to be.