[RF Scott]

Originally Posted by Stripey

Most of my favourite shoutcast stations are completely nonprofit and rely on donations to keep going, but still have a huge amount of listeners, and are run by people purely in it to spread the music.

It's disingenious to push these stations off the air, if anything they are increasing the likelyhood that an artist will get sales as people discover them through listening to the stream, being exposed to music they otherwise wouldn't hear on terrestrial radio.

Exactly.