For now, it's mostly visual advertising. Madonna generates about 4,000 music streams per day. REM is getting about 3000. While these are important numbers, it is important to remember that any medium-market radio station will have hundreds of thousands of listeners at any given time. Congress doesn't want any part of this - they want the labels and publishers to work this out on their own.
Independent artists deserve fair treatment.
Indies need representation in the music and publishing industry. Taken as a whole, yearly sales of independent music equal that of any one of the 5 major labels yearly sales. It is time for independent artists to earn the respect and financial rewards that have long been ignored by the music industry.