"Brenda Ann" writes:

2) They are not technically legal, as they pay no royalties. This is then
left up to the individual netcasters, most of whom pay no royalties at all.

icecast is perfectly legal.

What the user does with it, however, may not be. If I chose to use icecast
to stream Creative Commons content, there is no law being broken at all.

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