> The only losers are us professionals who know about the implications of such a move and who care about the loss of privacy.
You're right. But there is salvation on the music front: Use Streamripper to download music from a diversity of Internet Radios, and listen to it on your leisure, radically deleting everything that doesn't appeal to you. I guess you'll discover some new music, too! (I did). Somafm.com and Schizoid are good places to start. Streamripper also interprets metadata and will name the downloaded MP3 tracks in a recognizable way.
It's also not very hard to hack something up to download from pandora/grooveshark and keep the files, or even play them back into the browser. I've been hacking away on a pandora player which is certainly not ready for any 'real' use. http://github.com/dekz/pianode
Interesting, I see you've written it in Coffeescript. It's the first time I've looked at Coffeescript and what I see pleases me: Javascript with Python-style identation.
You're right. But there is salvation on the music front: Use Streamripper to download music from a diversity of Internet Radios, and listen to it on your leisure, radically deleting everything that doesn't appeal to you. I guess you'll discover some new music, too! (I did). Somafm.com and Schizoid are good places to start. Streamripper also interprets metadata and will name the downloaded MP3 tracks in a recognizable way.