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Really, I believe the Internet needs to be the next generation radio, instead everybody is trying to figure out new pricing plans or protocols to hose the consumer or the artists. What I want is a way to discover new talent FOR FREE, new music FOR FREE, and be given some reason for faith that the rest of the CD is good too.

Kinda like... Internet radio? I ran Stationripper on http://www.radioparadise.com/ for a couple of days and found tons of new stuff.... "FOR FREE"

*shrug* I've been using StationRipper for the last few months. Gets about 2000 new songs a day, for new stations. Rips shoutcast and iTunes...

When the RIAA gets done with suing everyone on the P2P clients, will they set their eyes on other means to force people to buy their monopolistic music? I've moved away from using P2P in favor of just getting good continuous music from shoutcast stations.

After I got into using StationRipper which Slashdot once covered, I don't even need to worry about using P2P to get music that I enjoy listening to. However, will I need to worry that the RIAA will track my use since I'm saving the music I listen to then worry that a lawsuit will fall on my door step for doing this?

It is nice to know that law-enforcement agencies exist that can be bought
and used like a toy cap-gun to enforce questionable legalities when
Corporate Intere$t i$ involved.

I am using StationRipper at this very moment to rip songs from the
soundstream of Club 977. This is for my personal use. According
to the click-through agreement when installing the program, this
is supposedly legal.

As a child of the 80's, the majority of my musical choices
are from this era. Does this mean I will never buy another CD?
Possibly. Will the RIAA seek me out now that I've announced
I'm ripping from a stream? Possibly, but doubtful.

What's next? Video rippers will appear to complement the current generation
of audio rippers. Does that mean no one will ever buy a DVD?
Possibly, but doubtful.

Do I care? Obviously not. I'm a died-in-the-wool user of Debian linux.
Society as a whole will evolve past this obession with control that provides
entertainment for all of us who know the futility of such an exercise.

When you connect to a Shoutcast station, the server sends you a buffer of the music being played, and IIRC stream rippers just make a lot of fake connections to have the whole song by appending these buffers, that's why the quality should be the same.

What bothers me is that the program StationRipper claims it can record up to 300 streams at one time, when a usual 512k DSL connection is limited to 4 CD quality streams (128k mp3)...

http://www.ratajik.com

http://www.ratajik.net/art/