I was happy to see this article saying there is hope for Pandora Radio. Rates set by the Copyright Review Board in 2007 would have had internet radio sites like Pandora paying 70 percent of their revenue towards performer royalties, which is astronomical compared to other music outlets like satellite and terrestrial radio.

The music industry has been slow to comprehend the influence that digital media has in the purchases made by music-lovers.

Pandora has gathered a great deal of data on how its 16 million users shop, and Westergren says that those studies show that online listeners are most definitely bigger music buyers.

BetaNews | Pandora sees relief ahead in net radio fee talks.

I know I have purchased more music recently because of services like Pandora and iTunes.