david byrne, busted by the riaa for artist rights infringement

on today's edition of his daily journal, david byrne rips into the riaa for sending him a letter to cease his streaming music channel. the show in question? his november all missy (elliot), all the time broadcast. he goes into an interesting explanation about how licensing of internet radio channels differ from terrestrial radio broadcasts, and some ideas on how sharing music ends up making money for the labels (but not as much for the artists).