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The other aspect is, I'm not someone who naively thinks, oh, the companies should just change their business model to match market demands. Changing a decades-old business model isn't that simple, by any means. But the music industry has always sold music (as well as physical media) to some extent; they sell licences for their stuff to be played on the radio, or in the soundtrack of films, or in adverts or what have you. Perhaps one model would be for them to switch to making money from that route, and not charge the individual consumers at all?

But certainly, treating every user-built custom online "radio" station as if it were an entire separate station is counterproductive. It's not being done to make money, it's purely punitive because for some reason the industry somehow doesn't want online radio to exist. If the labels charged online radio on a reasonable scale, it would be a huge money maker, both directly and because it would encourage listeners to go out and buy music they might not otherwise come across. That doesn't require a huge change in business models, it just requires applying the current ones in a sensible way.