Evil twists that killed Internet radio. Mark Cuban, the man who cut the Yahoo!/RIAA deal that the US Library of Congress ruling was based upon, admits that it was designed to destroy competition in the Internet radio market.
The Yahoo! deal I worked on, if it resembles the deal the CARP ruling was built on, was designed so that there would be less competition, and so that small webcasters who needed to live off of a “percentage-of-revenue” to survive, couldn’t.