I have stopped listening to internet radio since the greed of the US publishers closed down my favourites a few years ago. They forced a huge rise in payments, backdated to the previous January. As fifty per cent of these royalties went directly to the publishers and the other fifty per cent (under most existing contracts) is effectively an interest free loan for them for between twelve and twenty-four months, it is not hard to see why they wanted this. The other side effect of this, was not unwelcome to the major record companies. They invest a lot of money on keeping access to the media as a pretty exclusive club. They had every reason to resent the access of internet play to independent, non label artists. It was a good year for the bullies. The age of independent radio was very short and I was very sorry to see it go.