Good point, although they do still pay lip service to making radio stations pay.

(I don't know if you were referring to payola or the fact that the RIAA gives gigantic breaks on those payments to large radio stations, though.)

It's also notable that there are rules that radio stations muct play by, including not announcing songs significantly before they are played, so it's hard to get a copy of a specific song. (Unless it happens to be one of the three that get played four thousand times a day; waiting a few minutes isn't difficult.)