Hat tip to my friend and fellow blogger Maddie Grant for pointing this effort out to me (here and here). I have been keeping close tabs on the emerging disaster brought about by an obscure federal panel that ordered a doubling of the per-song performance royalty that Web radio stations pay to performers and record companies since the beginning, but it’s looking especially grim now. For organizations like Pandora, the price would be crippling and as a result they may be forced out of business simply due to the cost of doing business and providing a very valuable service while absolving traditional radio from the fee.

It’s a bad situation in general and even worse if you are a proponent of freeing information like I am. Take a look at this article: “Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its ‘Last Stand’” to get the background and then do your best to get involved and make some noise about this. And if you want a cool badge or banner to show your support you can find them at I Heart Pandora.

Information wants and needs to be free and it also needs our help to make it/keep it that way!