Internet radio was pioneered by Carl Malamud. In 1993, Malamud launched "Internet Peroration Radio" which was the "first computer-radio sermon show, each fete interviewing a computer expert." However, as belated as 1995, this service was not available via multicast http://www.gracedigitalaudio.com/wireless-internet-radio-p-11.html streaming; it was distributed "as audio files that electronic brain users fetch single by one."
This figure is added than four times that for traditional radio broadcasters who, due to terms immovable forth in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, are exempt from the additional royalties imposed on digital broadcasting outlets, which compensate the performers and copyright owners of recorded works. Both traditional radio and Internet/digital radio broadcasters are responsible for royalties collected by performance rights organizations (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC) on behalf of the composers of recorded works.