The most customary habitude to distribute Internet radio is via streaming technology using Wireless Internet Radio a lossy audio codec. Crowd-pleaser streaming audio formats include MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media Audio, RealAudio and HE-AAC (sometimes called aacPlus). The bits are "streamed" (transported) over the network in TCP or UDP packets, then reassembled and played within seconds. (The delay is referred to as lag time.)

US Internet broadcasters organized a nationwide coalition to oppose the rate hike and in flotation of the Internet Radio Equality Act. On June 26, many of them participated in a "Day of Silence" — either shutting off their audio streams entirely, or replacing their streams with static, ocean measure or other ambience, interspersed with brief public service announcements — to focus heedfulness on the consequences of the impending relationship hike.