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Grokster Does Internet Radio.

Apparently not satisfied with simply being one of the few "legal" file-swapping software providers, Grokster is branching out into the Internet radio market through a partnership with Mercora.

Launched by former McAfee.com founder and CEO Srivats Sampath last year, Mercora is the force behind what it claims is the largest legal and licensed P2P music search and discovery service on the Internet. The service works by turning all members into both listeners and Internet broadcasters. Where typical P2P services make songs on users' hard drives available for others to down

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