I'm frustrated that Pandora is fighting to pay <i>less</i> to the people who make the music we all love. The rates are already tiny relative to other sources of income for song writers.<p>I'm frustrated that ASCAP was angling for an arbitrarily larger percentage of revenue from Pandora based on going for nice looking numbers (2.5% retroactively for 2013, and 3% by 2015 in according to [1]).<p>But mostly I'm frustrated that congress and the courts are setting numbers when the market is perfectly capable of working this sort of thing out on its own. Legislation of terrestrial radio makes some sense given that the airwaves are allocated for public use. Internet radio is over pipes the government has no control over, though, except when the bits turn into music. Oh, and only when that music is chosen by someone other than the user. What?<p>[1] <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/14/ruling-on-pandora-ascap-royalty-fight-is-a-draw/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/14/ruling-on-pandora-asc...</a>