Since olivier.voutat's thread was merged into this one, this is an answer to his first post:
Like I said in the other thread, if you don't have a streamradio program on the computer, it is not liable for radio tax.
But your main problem is that while the height of radio and TV tax are subject to discussion, this:
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is not the oppinion of the Swiss majority. The public TV channels are subject to stricter advertising rules and must perform certain duties, to inform about news and politics and news in Switzerland. Also it is seen as an important gesture that the Swiss German part subsidises the public French and Italian speaking TV and radio stations.
The problem is that this so-called "service public" will never be performed by the foreign competition from the neighboring countries. They couldn't care less about Switzerland in their news and general program, even the relatively big Swiss German part is just an insignificant appendage of the German market. Well the German stations run some Swiss advertisement windows but that's about it.
You won't change the advertisement conditions either because a new Radio and TV legislation became recently effective. My advise is to join a consumer protection organisation, they'll organise protests and political pressure and guide you to the battlefields of the hour (probably Billag tax on MP3 players and TV tax on computers).
Okay, now what about private competition from Switzerland? After all, the new radio and TV law provides them with a small slice of the radio/TV tax, too! But it's not so simple. The few efforts to establish a private national TV channel went belly-up after a few years each so far... 3 Plus TV is still running but their program, especially the rip-off quizes, are a disgrace for Swiss media. The regional TV stations on the other hand usually loop a 1h program and aren't very interesting advertising mediums (to my knowledge Tele Züri is the only one whose market share exceeds 0.1%).
And private radios are confronted with a difficult situation, too: The federal office of communication doesn't hand out nation-wide concessions to privates, so there isn't really space for niche music. So the regional radios usually opt for hardcore mainstream music to survive and can't compete with innovative concepts. The administrative decisions of the federal office of communication are very difficult to influence from outside.