I think the argument that the radio service should be free for all because it is supported by a social community is particularly difficult to work with. If you compare with community based services that you do subsidize, it makes less sense. You see the sort of argument frequently too that you pay for your ISP, everything else should be free… because I pay for a bundle of television channels, not individual channels. And even this becomes outdated when you bit torrent seasons of a program, or watch on satellite, which inevitably shows you advertising for services in a different time zone…

A true open-source model would truly place the value in the community. This is the difference between twitter and identi.ca, I suppose – services start to become regional again when they become cloneable. last.fm could franchise.