Stations Can't Play Crippled Music Disks

arb writes "The Age is reporting that some radio stations are unable to play copy-protected CDs. It seems at least one radio station is facing problems transferring CD tracks to their digital playout system. Is the lack of radio air-play a price the record labels are willing to pay in their efforts to stamp out piracy?"

Comments

Re:Give them time.

[k-0s]

Hmmm idea, lets start a small radio station, claim our equipment doesn't work, sue the RIAA for unfair business practices, say around 98.7 trillion dollars and donate the money to the file sharing kid.

Re:What's wrong with sticking to pre-2003 music?

[Anonymous Coward]

You make the mistake of assuming that the people consuming all the new stuff are doing it because it's good music.

A Solution to CD Piracy

[heretic108]

The RIAA can eliminate the financial losses due to CD piracy in a really simple way...

STOP RELEASING NEW MUSIC!

• Profits will be restored to earlier levels if the labels don't have to spend money on new artists. They're still stuck back in the Elton John days, and have no idea on how to recognise and nurture modern talent. They're full of coke-sniffing old farts hopelessly stuck within their comfort zones
• Radio stations play 90% back catalogue anyway, and this provides a steady royalties stream, especially since the US Judiciary has effectively ruled that copyrights are eternal
• Independent labels will step in to fill the gap, and will likely evolve new business models to make full use of internet technology
• A renaissance of new musical expression will ensue

Everyone wins!

The RIAA gets to keep control of the back catalogue, while the fresher new artists and labels find ways to turn a profit, and perhaps live far better, without having to suck on that toxic nipple of the RIAA ripoff recording contract.

Does this mean I won't hear...

[erik_fredricks]

Any wonderful Arista artists like Santana, Whitney Houston, Pink, TLC or Kenny G.?

Maybe when a big-name star with serious legal representation (like Celine Dion) finds that she's not getting airplay because the record company crippled her product, we'll see some progress made against copy-crippled cds.

Oh. My. God. Could it be that Celine Dion could save us?

Funny thing is, I stopped listening to the radio for anything other than traffic reports around 1993 or so. It's not like I'd have even noticed...

Re:Download them!

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the best time was when I heard one of those songs by the (crappy) Barenaked Ladies on the radio, and part way into the song it cuts out and you hear the Barenaked Ladies go on about how you shouldn't pirate their music. They hurredly went to an ad.

So, where do you suppose they got THEIR music from?

Don't say crippled!

[tiredwired]

These CDs should be referred to as "playback challenged." Don't get me started on the retards at the music companies.

Re:What difference does it make?

[nathanh]

I sincerely believe that the whole idea was thought up by some suits who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

Of course they know the difference. Their heads aren't stuck in a hole in the ground.

Re:Double-Edged Sword

[jo_ham]

What is this F-lo-ppy D-is-k of which you speak?

Are they like AOL's free coasters?

Re:Cutting off your face to spite your nose

[C0LDFusion]

Un-CDs?! Absopositively Counterlogical, I say. Newspeak is doubleplusungood for masshappy. Jump your cuejuncts for masshappy.

The words you're looking for are...

[sdo1]

... Poetic Justice.

-S

France vs. RIAA

[Glonoinha]

> If I order (online) 3 CDs from France, the odds are that one of them will be copy protected.

France already surrendered.