Net radio raises a pirate flag
For McLeod and others like him, it's not about revenue or about large numbers of listeners. He's inspired by Radio Caroline and the other ship-based stations that broadcast off the coast of Britain in defiance of that country's radio monopoly in the 1960s and 1970s, he says.

"I'm not going undercover to hide from the RIAA," McLeod said. "If people don't oppose their paid-for legislation, then democracy is in serious trouble. Your U.S. democracy doesn't look too healthy from here anyway."