My goodness, scru, I've only posted four times so far on this blog. How often could I offend your sensibilities?

I pretty much disagreed with everything up until this post.

But you're still reading, so I'll take that as a good sign.

I just wanted to let you know that I checked the Pandora FAQ and they do pay into the various royalty organizations such as ASCAP and BMI, but there are other restrictions in the international licensing rules that prevent them from being available in many areas outside of the U.S. See http://blog.pandora.com/faq/#25 for more information, but it's clear they completely respect copyright, licensing and ownership.

It seems the record companies have caught with ProjectPlaylist and are suing it for copyright infringement according to this article in the NYT today:http://tinyurl.com/627mte

35 sites to download free and legal MP3s: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08...al-mp3s-music/