Kurt Hanson in his March 9th edition of RAIN quotes Beta News as saying that ""CRB rates would make SoundExchange a '$2.3 billion per year business'" and "based on the CRB's royalty rates for 2006, AOL Radio is expected to receive a royalty bill for last year for about $23.7 million...".
It gets worse:
"On a per-listener scale, broadcast radio stations paid $1.56 per listener on average during 2006; and in 2010, that figure rises to $1.94 per listener. BetaNews estimates that Internet radio sites, by contrast, will&hellip
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