"Pandora’s approach more or less ignores the crowd. It is indifferent to the possibility that any given piece of music in its system might become a hit. The idea is to figure out what you like, not what a market might like. More interesting, the idea is that the taste of your cool friends, your peers, the traditional music critics, big-label talent scouts and the latest influential music blog are all equally irrelevant. That’s all cultural information, not musical information."

"Only massive grassroots opposition will keep us from another 50 years of top 40 radio. It’s time to take a stand and break the stranglehold of broadcast media on radio."

"The stupidity of the RIAA continues to have little bounds, particularly when a decision like this forces a US company to stop streaming outside of the US, yet American owned companies based in the UK (like Last.fm) are free to stream music anywhere."