Inspired by Britain’s iconoclastic history of pirate radio broadcasting, Iain McLeod wants to save Internet radio.
The 39-year-old McLeod, a game designer who works out of his home in England, is the author of Streamer, a new software program designed to let people create online radio stations that are difficult for the authorities to trace.
Like many a Net rebel before him, McLeod says he’s fighting what he sees as the big record labels’ desire to control online music. Industry pressure, combined with new rules that will make it much more expensive to play music online in the United States, threatens to force independent DJs into extinction, he says.
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