In May, the New York Times reported on a surge of teenage Europeans who run YouTube channels that live-stream music 24 hours a day, operating in a legal gray area reminiscent of 20th-century pirate radio stations. Chief among these channels is the UK-based College Music, the operator of two live streams including “24/7 lofi hip hop radio - beats to study/chill/relax,” which has more than 400,000 subscribers to its broadcasts of mellow, mostly instrumental tracks by relatively unknown artists.…
In May, the New York Times reported on a surge of teenage Europeans who run YouTube channels that live-stream music 24 hours a day, operating in a legal gray area reminiscent of 20th-century pirate radio stations. Chief among these channels is the UK-based College Music, the operator of two live streams including “24/7 lofi hip hop radio - beats to study/chill/relax,” which has more than 400,000 subscribers to its broadcasts of mellow, mostly instrumental tracks by relatively unknown artists.…