From CNet News.com: "As Napster prepares to pull song files off its music-swapping service, a new application could put recording power in the hands of Net radio fans.

"The free software application...from Internet research and development company The Audio Mill, will work like a VCR for Internet radio. Music fans will be able to search for their favorite artists from a list of thousands of Internet radio stations and then record songs onto a computer.

"The launch comes as copyright infringement turns into a heavily pitted battleground. The fight between Napster and the record industry is raging, with others attempting to take a piece of the file-swapping company...

"Jupiter Research analyst Aram Sinnreich said RadioActive could potentially face legal issues surrounding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial law backed by music companies and other large copyright holders that prohibits anyone from cracking code designed to protect copyrights...

"The company said it differs from Napster in that it has taken steps to ensure the recording is personal by locking content on a computer and preventing distribution."

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From AllAccess: "Audiomill's new stream-capturing service Radioactive, has been hit with a trademark infringement suit. Radioactive Records has sent Audiomill a cease-and-desist, claiming that the company is infringing its trademark rights."

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From the press release: "MeasureCast announced today that Internet-only broadcaster MEDIAmazing.com took the number one spot in MeasureCast's list of top 25 Internet radio broadcasters for the week of March 5 - March 11.

"This marks the first time since MeasureCast began issuing rankings in December 2000 that New York talk radio station WABC did not finish the week in first place -- it took second."

Here are the top five from MeasureCast's weekly "Top 25" for the week of Monday, March 5th through Sunday, March 11th, 2001.

Rank	Station	Format	Network	Total TSL (in hrs.)	Cume Persons
1	MediaAmazing	Listener Formatted	MEDIAmazing	88,811	29,913
2	WABC-AM (New York)	Talk Radio	ABC Radio	83,864	13,931
3	Virgin Radio/1215 AM & 105.8 FM(London)	CHR/Top 40	ABC Radio	66,376	9,395
4	LaMega/WSKQ-FM (New York)	Spanish	LaMusica/Spanish Broadcasting System	57,325	11,125
5	Radio Margaritaville	Classic Rock	Internet America/Radio Margaritaville	42,650	6,894

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From the press release: "Classical music Internet-only webcaster Beethoven.com ranked number one with the most aggregate tuning hours (ATH)—the sum total of all hours that listeners tune to a given channel—in the month of December, according to the latest Arbitron Webcast Ratings.

In December, Beethoven.com, streamed by iBEAM, had a total of 565,700 ATH. In addition, two other Classical streaming-audio webcast channels ranked in the top 25...

WABC-AM, a New York-based news, talk and information radio station streamed by RealBroadcast Networks, continued its popularity among listeners during the month of December, ranking second, with 294,800 ATH; and MEDIAmazing ranked third, with 282,000 ATH."

To read the press release and see the complete rankings, click here.

Now that Arbitron's December numbers are out, we have for the first time the ability to compare them MeasureCast numbers for the exact same time frame. Take a look at MeasureCast's December numbers here.

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