Anyone can record music off the radio. The radio station pays the royalties, so the music is free to the listeners. If you wanted a free copy of "Sultans of Swing", and if you knew when the local FM station was going to play it, you could record it.
But wait! There are thousands of internet radio stations. Suppose your computer could listen to internet radio stations for you until it heard the music you want?
BroadClip.com will help you do this. You can download a client program for your PC and enter your searches on the web site. BroadClip never touches the actual music, so they are not distributing copyrighted material. Great idea! I'm not sure exactly how they do this, but:
Q. How do you know what music plays where?
A. That's BroadClip's "Secret Sauce". We have built an entirely new search technology that is optimized to search media streams that occur in real time. We have applied for patents on it, and we call it MobSearch.
How well does it work in practice? Good enough for an MP3 player, good enough for my laptop's built-in speakers. It looks like they're going to do video next.
Oh, all right, here's a video of Sultans:
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