Whenever I have an in depth discussion about online radio, questions invariably come up like “Why can’t I choose the song I like?” or “Will Pandora last?” A lot of what determines those answers lies in the legal foundation provided by the much misunderstood Digital Millennium Copyright Act, (generally abbreviated to DMCA). But the long arm of the DMCA reaches far beyond Internet radio. This article from TechCrunch goes into some of the issues currently faced by traditional media companies (TCM) http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/06/big-media-nuclear-dmca/ and explains why they want changes.