It seems like the Save Our Streams fight has been pretty much lost (scroll to the bottom). Welcome to the science of unintended consequences.

Radio traditionally served as a filter to help people find music they like from so immense a library they could never began to hear it all. As corporate radio and focus-group-pop diluted contemporary musical choices, listeners turned to smaller independent radio stations and individuals to help find interesting things to listen to. This in part revealed what a wasteland ‘popular music’ and commercial music radio has become.

Listeners will be bored again, and they’ll go looking for music-filters. People who use software like Kung-Tunes to publish whatever music they’re listening to onto their web sites will become the new DJs. Since there will be no streams to sample from, file-sharing services will fill the gap of allowing listeners to find and hear the songs they read about.

Killing Internet radio will promote file-sharing, retrain people away from radio and eventually do more to hurt the very commercial music radio corporations and record companies who pushed for this bill than Internet Radio ever would have. Congratulations, you won. Have a nice legacy.