Not that I've had much time to listen to much online radio lately (when I have it typically has been either Sirius or XM, and I still wonder how they are impacted by these fees when they eventually do hit), but I am glad that it seems that the marketplace seems to be working out a compromise in this area.

Of course the compromise was basically forced upon both sides thanks to the Copyright Royalty Board setting rates that were more in line with those asked for by the music industry while the webcasters have basically refused to even really talk about the issue until some of the implications of those rates were eliminated from consideration.  As usual in many large and important negotiations, it seems that neither side really wanted to work with the other until there was the drop dead date looming in front of them.

Why businesses always run things right up to the deadlines before really negotiating is beyond me.  You'd think that both sides in these equations would have enough sense to work from their reasonable positions to begin with, but it seems that the participants never want to be seen as giving in too easily, even though in many cases the deals they make later are much worse for them than the deals they could have had much earlier.