Hey, Giz! How about a question of the day along the lines of "What internet radio stations, if any, do you listen to?" I'd love to see what my fellow Giz readership listens to.

For me, it's a 50/50 split between Radio Paradise and SomaFM's Indie Pop Rocks!, one or the other broadcasting 24/7 throughout my apartment. So this announcement from the Senate is great news.

bosskev

@enchantedgoose: Using something else... lol

Beta @ Random

so now that that's settled...

twistfunk

WOOHOO! I even wrote my Congressman! :)

IRONF1ST

oh what ever would we do without pandora

enchantedgoose

God I hope Pandora makes it.

Xenocide

THANK GOD

[listening to pandora right now! lol ]

tenio

And the peasants rejoice..

Darkest Daze

Dedicated Radio Paradise listener since 2000. I'm happy to see this finally getting resolved. Finally got the live stream going in my car thanks to EVDO-ra

spartadog

Thank god indeed. Those emails from Tim were getting a little stalkery.

92BuickLeSabre

Yes! Pandora's iPhone app rules. I'm glad to see it stay!

AmishPhysicist

yay

rolfo87

@Beta @ Random:

While Last.fm is a great service, in my opinion Pandora trumps it as far as recommendations go.

dead_red_eyes

@bosskev: KPBS, and I'm serious.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

Yay!

LazyPanda

Pandora FTW!!!

Riverama

Screwing webcasters they way they have, the guys running SoundExchange need to be stripped naked and dropped in a prison shower room on "Free Viagra Samples Day".

mobiusmuse

@bosskev: Sky.FM - has a wide selection of music I like, and specifically has a solo piano and solo guitar channel that are great for work.

shockwaver

@92BuickLeSabre: Tim's not so bad once you get to know him. He and his group take you to this nice compound in NE and they teach you about music recommendation. My name is no longer Robert.

Now, it is Tanya.

Kaiser-Machead

Thank God! I just discovered a brand-new artist that I'd never heard of before just by listening to Pandora this evening. I quickly went out and bought the album.

SoundExchange/RIAA are evil and idiots not to understand how important net radio - especially services like Pandora - is.

Viva Pandora!

EnochLight

Yay! It's like christmas in september! ...if christmas meant that santa would come around and let you keep the toys you already had...

Kjartan

Fack!

Now I can't monopolize the internet with my pirate radio station!

:(

Damn you Congress!

Whoever thought that charging royalties from internet radio stations was a good idea is most definitely a puppet of the devil, fully including the hand inserted through the hole for devil operation.

Congradulations!

skulldriveshaft

Meh. Pandora lost my confidence when I wasn't able to surf to it from Hong Kong. No that I'm in NYC, I really didn't use it anyway.

michaelleung

Horray! I was really worried about this. I love Pandora!

SpyderMS

President Bush still has to sign this. I expect he's not going to veto it, but FYI for those who have noted that this is settled.

Schalliol

@Darkest Daze: Yes, I was so freaked out that Pandora might close down, that I forgot to check on the foreclosure of my house... /sarcasm

Seriously, am I the only one who thinks lawmakers should be concentrating on how not to make a bigger clusterfuck of the economy, rather than worrying about Internet radio?!

blackmage439

Finally, some GOOD news!

Peechiz

Last.fm?

I like Pandora also, this is good news.

Strider-No.9

I sure hope it has gone through.
Unfortunately I have settled for last.fm since I am currently in Canada.

fromagesfondus

wohoo!! big step forward!

SleepingMartyr

Last.fm is what I'm listening to right now. And all the time.

RE-L

Is there a list of which members of congress voted for/against this act? I'd be curious to see who supported it, and who was against it.

wiregr

@blackmage439: You arent the only one. But that doesnt make you 100% justified. There are a load of those ...erm... "people" working on the economy already. Theres like over 500 of them, and honestly, too many cooks spoil the broth. So while a number of them are working on the economy, its good that others are doing other things so that other issues arent completely ignored.

Lucifer_Cat

I love pandora. I'm listening right now.

innout3x3

@wiregr: It was a voice vote, so this info isn't available.

"In legislative bodies, a voice vote is a decision-making process in which those present make their opinions known orally as a group, rather than standing or dividing to be counted. This means that there is no formal record of who voted in support and voted against the measure under consideration..."

ExtendedRockyMontage

@blackmage439: We don't need a bailout...what these politicians who embraced the free market a few weeks ago want is marxism! They didn't pass the bailout monday, and the consequences were supposed to be instant armageddon, and they weren't. the market will correct itself...

Con Seannery

@blackmage439: This can be a game-changer in the industry in the future of radio. The economy clearly is important, but this was highly necessary.

As for the potential foreclosure of your home, perhaps you shouldn't have bought one outside your means so you could, you know, actually pay your bills.

ExtendedRockyMontage

So glad I called my senator to help support this :-)

Mactacular

Not bad, and while the MAFIAA and it's co-conspirators conspire with their conspiracy to bite the hand that feeds, what are the unintended consequences of government involvement here that will make us all hate the bill?

Con Seannery

@fromagesfondus: You poor baby!

bbfreak

What's Pandora? O.o

bbfreak

@Con Seannery: <-- What he said. I think.

txpunk