Whether it's your favorite college or indie station streaming on the web, or one of the new Internet-only stations like Pandora, Internet radio has given the American public a new and innovative outlet for news and music. Internet radio gives new musicians and new ideas a chance to grow and get around the choke-hold corporate broadcasters have over the airwaves. But it's under threat of a Copyright Royalty Board fee change scheduled to take effect next Monday, 15 July that could take all these outlets off the Internet and leave us at the mercy of the canned national playlists of a few media giants.

College students and other youth have long recognized the benefits of the diversity of musical choices on college, indie and Internet radio. That's why PIRG students, led by DC office summer interns Lauren Linville and Sarah Duncan, are part of a national campaign to save Internet radio. They've delivered over 2,000 student signatures collected in just the last few weeks, to Capitol Hill, in support of the bi-partisan "Internet Radio Equality Act of 2007" (H.R. 2060). You can still sign the petition. For more information, go to Savenetradio.org.