Earlier this week, I received a pretty interesting email from Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora Radio. He starts out writing about how Pandora was able to survive the internet royalty ruling of 2007. Ok, I figured that out. It is 2009 and your site is still up and running. Tim goes on to inform me that:
While we did the best we could to lower the rates, we are going to have to make an adjustment that will affect about 10% of our users who are our heaviest listeners. Specifically, we are going to begin limiting listening to 40 hours per month on the web. Because we have to pay royalty fees per song and per listener, it makes very heavy listeners hard to support on advertising alone. Most listeners will never hit this cap, but it seems that you might.
Where does he get off calling me a “heavy” listener? I bet I weigh less than he does! Hahahaha. Forgive the crappy joke. Thank goodness for Slacker.