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The music industry would be crazy to nix this. Imagine selling special tracks exclusively through turntable.fm, branding rooms for DJs and celebs, etc.

Shazam pushes $100 M. in purchases towards iTunes etc each year. Turntable could blow that away.

But the industry is going to see people uploading DRM free tunes and freak about not getting enough of a cut.

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That kind of vision doesn't exist in the music industry. They shut down Muxtape. They'll shut down this.

I wonder if anyone is working on an open source implementation that people could run on private servers. If it does get shut down, it would be nice if I could run this just for myself and my friends - really, it would be no different than inviting them to a party and turning on my radio. (Though, honestly, I'd wager someone has been sued for this.)

And yet they have allowed 8track to exist.

The founders are hoping they can exist under the protections of DMCA streaming radio.

The question is whether Turntable will have to make so many compromises with the labels that the site loses its appeal. You can't skip through something like more than two songs in a row in 8tracks. You could see how those kinds of restrictions could potentially ruin the fun of Turntable.

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