Due to an issue with the RIIA charge stupidly crazy rates to represent their music artists, innovative web 2.0 site pandora.com is now only limited to listening in America - and possibly Britain as well I think.
Non-internet radio stations do not have to pay to play songs of artists, yet the RIIA has had a law put in place that means Internet radio stations have to pay royalties well above the actual income of the companies.
This seems quite ludicrous and has been openly ridiculed by many on the internet as a failed attempt to curb piracy, with many users stating that pandora.com actually cut piracy by educating them about music artists and encouraging them to buy the music CDs rather than resort of downloading them illegally.
