Unfortunately (from the perspective of a songwriter), a lot of people will take that as wink-wink nudge-nudge. Anyway, a non-profit streaming service that is voluntarily populated only by indie artists that control their own licensing terms (in exchange for revenue share) would a good thing.

What is "wink-wink nudge-nudge"? Do you think I'm promoting violating licenses?

I'm a musician, too. I meant that someone could start a GNU FM service and stream music that has been licensed legally from musicians.

pertinent http://youtu.be/ona-RhLfRfc

A perfectly legal non-wink wink nudge nudge would appear to be private-ish streaming with music from magnatune:

http://magnatune.com/info/give

So letting the whole world listen would break the agreement, but just streaming to you, your spouse, and maybe a buddy or two would be "OK" or at least well within the spirit of the agreement. Just no more than 3 other people. I'm not exactly sure why you'd stream rather than just share the file, but whatever. Maybe you have purchased gigs and gigs of music licenses and want a jukebox effect, donno.

I've purchased rights from magnatune in the distant past, and would recommend them. I like their business model and they did the deal professionally and quickly, and I've not heard anyone complain about them. Good people, basically.

Or by using subsonic - which is a pretty sexy host-it-yourself web jukebox (OSS): http://www.subsonic.org

I'd love to do more to disassociate the two.

Libre.fm is five years old now. Time for us to break the chain?