I strongly urge you to support the bipartisan "Internet Radio Equality Act of 2007."
Other than the occasional non-commercial usually college radio stations, internet radio is the only alternative radio to which I have access.
Let me give you an example from my favorite band (improbably named Eek-A-Mouse). In one song, the band patches in parts of Dr. King's "I Had A Dream" speech. The words of Dr. King are clearly his own; the song though is unique (but similar in spirit to the thoughts expressed in Dr. King's speech). Nowhere on commercial radio can I hear music like that: I value both the theme of the song and the music itself (again, nowhere on commercial radio can I hear music from bands like Eek-A-Mouse).
The stringent royalties currently being pushed by RIAA et. al. threaten my access--everyone's access--to alternative music, to alternative thoughts, to alternative world views. The United States of America, it is said, would not exist had it not been for the words--the freely given words--of a Mr. Thomas Paine; indeed, it is said that General Washington and his troops would not have made it through that first winter at Valley Forge were it not for Paine's alternative voice, his perspective.
Would the world be a better place had the revolution in America not occurred? Although these are serious times, I think--hope--not. I believe it was American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson who said that an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man: let the light shine freely in this country, as it once did and could do again. Let not human thought and opinion become, as it increasingly is, in this country, the lengthened shadow of one or two major media conglomerates.