I also don’t think there’s much bad about what Apple is doing here. I also think it’s kind of different from webcasting. It’s almost like being able to put up a read only collection of your songs on your web page. There’s no real broadcasting going on, it’s more web-like in that sense.

It was interesting chatting about this tonight at the blog thing. I wish I had net while there, because I could have shown how it works on my laptop. I hope nothing comes of this because I love it. I love being able to share out my playlist and listen to it from wherever I happen to be (though I password protect it. I don’t want random people using up my bandwidth).

I agree in the short term. Webcasting is expensive to provide. I can’t see many people allowing too many people to stream off of their desktops/servers before they cry “uncle”

Of course, in the long term, PCs are 1000 times more powerful and bandwidth is 1/1000 as expensive and that equation will change. Everyone becomes a microRadio station in that world.