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Instant Concert CDs?

Posted by michael on from the taking-all-the-fun-out-of-it dept.

NickRipley writes "Clear Channel (owner of every radio station in America) is purporting to offer a new service, whereby concertgoers can receive an official recording of the concert they just attended, within moments after the final note. How will the RIAA react to this, seeing as this is legitimizing one of the oldest forms of music pirating? Also, what kind of equipment will have to be used to produce these so fast? Will the recording process suffer due to the hurry?"

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  1. easy for some concerts... by pangu · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...where everything is lip synched anyway.

  2. It's easy... by Overt+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    When the boy band du jour finishes their lip-synching performance on stage, Clear Channel can just have the soundtracks ready to go...

  3. Oh great... by march · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh great... So now, for $15.99 I can get another poor quality, live recording of my favorite band.

    No thanks. I'll wait for them to produce one in the studio so I can actually hear all the instruments and vocals.

  4. WOW, I love it, but how much will it cost the band by tyrani · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a great idea. I would love to buy a CD of the concert that I just experienced. I think everyone who's ever attended a concert and seen all of the audio production going on has thought why the concert producers couldn't do something like this. Being able to take an actual piece of the concert away with you would add a lot of value to expensive concerts.

    However, bands would have to worry about concert sales. I'm sure that a couple of hours after a concert ends, all of the audio would be all over the net. Would this effect record sales?

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  5. Re:Given that live music is the best music... by egreB · · Score: 2, Funny

    And the best thing is, if you have fast enough CD-burners, you can actually burn a lot more CDs than you have burners at the same time, according the RIAA..

  6. Re:Technology gives - and technology takes away by Peterus7 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'm going to a concert soon, and I can just imagine...

    Band: "Are you ready!?!"
    Crowd: "YEAH!!!"
    Band singer: "Ok, well that's cool, but first I've been asked to tell you to turn all your recorders off, because there's a legit way of doing that now.... That benefits us!"
    *man in suit walks on stage*
    Man: "Ah, I'm with the RIAA and we're shutting that down now, but we'll shoot the next person we see with a recorder out."