Howard & The Pirates: Sirius Wants Stern Stealing To Cease
TheStreet.com reports that pirate radio stations with names like hearhoward.org and hearhoward100.com began streaming taped broadcasts of Howard Stern's live show shortly after Stern jumped to pay radio. Sirius and Stern's production company countered by sending out cease-and-desist letters to shut the pirates down.
While pirating Stern is not new, it was one thing when Stern was King of All Free Radio, but now that he’s on Sirius at $12.95 a month, if the show leaks out for free, fans would have little incentive to keep paying. TheStreet likens it to a scenario where water fountains started spraying free Coca-Cola. In that case, who’d want to part with four quarters for a bottle of Coke?
