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RIAA Nightmare: Pro-level Portable Hard Disk Recorder
ratfynk writes "Anybody interested in creating their own MP3 or WAV recordings should take a look at this device. It is a compact hard drive recorder that looks like it is the next logical step beyond ADAT.
My interest is fair use, the ability to record my compositions and performance with studio grade equipment at a reasonable cost. This device seems to fit the bill. Specs are available at micsupply.com. This device looks so good that the RIAA might try to make it illegal." For a not-cheap but cheaper alternative, check out the updated-weekly Core Sound page on their PDA-based recorder mentioned a few months ago.
for one reason and one reason alone, fair fvcking use. we still have the rights in this country to purchase items to use for our convenience. they should not, and in my opinion, never will have the fvcking right to tell me that i as an american cannot buy a product because it would hurt their industry. its like telling a cay buyer not to buy a chevy because it would hurt his ford dealership.
This device looks so good that the RIAA might try to make it illegal.
The more they try, the more innovations will come along. The RIAA are fighting a losing battle. The sooner they realize it, the better off everyone, (including the RIAA), will be.
"A revolution without dancing is... a revolution not worth having"
I know, this story is not good enough to be posted just as hardware or audio news.
What's otherwise a fairly interesting piece of hardware has no relation to the RIAA, so it's given one to make it more interesting.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
My interest is fair use, the ability to record my compositions and performance with studio grade equipment at a reasonable cost.
No, this isn't "fair use"-- fair use is an allowance for you to use someone ELSE'S copyrighted material for a limited purpose-- a review, an excerpt, until recently a sample, etc for certain purposes. What you're talking about is a legitimate use that gives you the SAME powers as the RIAA has for their own copyrighted works. The RIAA can claim that you might use this to infringe on their copyrights. You can argue that they may use the equipment they currently use to infringe on yours.
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This is my SIG. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
I could care less if they mention the RIAA or not, I enjoy hearing about interesting new products, especially tech-type toys. So "this story is not good enough" is from your perspective...with your wonderful paradigms...so yes, it was interesting enough for me to read even without the RIAA reference.
(And a dig at RIAA just adds a little bounus humor!)
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
I think the piece of hardware is quite interesting and worthy of a post on Slashdot. Unfortuneately, I nearly passed it up for seeing it as 'Oh, god. Yet another RIAA article.'
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It's a very expensive product geared towards the professional. What the RIAA would REALLY hate would be an iPod with SPDIF inputs and the ability to connect to other iPods via firewire. You could then connect your cd player directly to your iPod and then transfer directly from iPod to iPod, all without leaving the digital domain and with no lossy compression.
Wow, cheap recording equipment for the low-budget musician without a G4.
Unfortunately, it still won't produce the kind of album you get from a multimillion dollar staff of producers and engineers, and those are the guys who really make albums that sell.
Humor? It's pure FUD and it doesn't add anything to the content. I don't mind a bit of opinionated journalism but this type of unsubstantiated comment is unwarranted.
They wouldn't. The RIAA care about you stealing songs on P2P. Digital recording has been around for a long time. However, there is the question of how you will position the microphones, indeed what types of microphones to have in order to capture the true sound and the room's ambiance. Assuming this is done to a satisfactory standard, who is going to produce it? Oh, right. You. Because as we all know, you are a polymath capable of performing, recording and producing. Oh, you didn't realise that mastering was a step either? Ah well. It's not like anyone's going to be listening.
So I rambled a bit - the point is, this is nothing to do with the RIAA except that they are both associated with music.
This is one of the dumbest statements I've read all day. Why would the RIAA give a rats ass about this device? It offers nothing more than PC's can already do. On top of this, it is not a consumer device, so the chance of Joe Blow getting his hands on one (or even figuring out where to buy one) are slim.
This device is meant for location recording. It'll work great for those of us that record live audio, as we'll no longer have to a) carry around laptops or b) spend time converting from formats like DAT. Some people are a little weary of it, however, due to the fact that no one has heard the preamp it uses (but most assume that it's the same as the MP2).
Oh, and if you want to check out the official website and not a vendor's site, here it is.
I dunno who it is
but it prolly is fhqwhgads.
...is a built in compressor/limiter. Then the amatures would grab it too. This may not produce the 'best' sound in the world but a good compressor/limiter combo would consistently produce very good sound for the hobby people (or pod people).
I can't even begin to tell people how valuable my minidisc recorder has been in recording DJ sets because of the built in compression functions like a compressor/limiter.
Despite this, they've won. Why? We don't have libbyists! The EFF doesn't have enough money. What we need are for some high-profile geeks that are commercially successful and not particularly political in the real world (read: not Stallman) to openly back the EFF, donating money and such.
Think if the EFF was even as powerful as the ACLU. Stupid laws like the DMCA would be immediately challenged and shit-canned. Copyright wouldn't last millennia. It's time to have these bullshit industry lobbying groups fear us for a change.
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
if our IP system weren't so hopelessly corrupt, the GPL would not be needed.
Actually a very nice device, but it lacks the ability to do SMPTE time code output (for syncronization with external devices such as the Pangolin Quadmod series laser display systems), but then again, you can sacrifice an audio channel and use an external device such as an Aquilla time code unit for this. And for a brand new device, being much cheaper than the ADATs were when they came out, this seems like a very good alternative to the bulkier rack mount solutions such as the TASCAM 24/24.
Howabout we get rid of the radio payola system, the ticketmaster lockout contracts, and the central radio ownership to ALLOW OTHER PEOPLE to get their music out and heard.
Dude, nobody argues with the copyright. Its the ramming of the prices down everyone's throat - for a product we KNOW doesn't cost that much. If it walks and talks like a monopoly...
Filesharing copyrighted material is - to me - a form of public protest; civil disobedience. And it's already at critical mass.
>American Civil Liberties Union. These guys *try* to protect your freedoms.
This is complete and utter nonsense. The ACLU used to try to protect your freedom. Now it only will try to protect your freedom if they agree politically with your freedom.
Consider the Boy Scouts, a private organization, which has been under legal and media pressure to accept people into it which don't meet the qualifications as laid out in the Boy Scout bylaws.
Consider the Augusta Golf country club, a private orginzation, which has been under intense NT Times pressure to admit women as members.
Why hasn't the ACLU come to defend the rights of the private Boy Scouts orgizination and the Augusta Golf country club to admit whom they like?
Simple answer, the ACLU does not agree with the politics of either orginization.
ACLu == American Civil Liberties Union
I guess that a private club does not have the liberty to admit whatever members it wants.
With a laptop, Mbox (small enough to be quite portable), good mics, and ProTools LE, you have an affordable, portable, professional recording solution. Professional as in, pros use exactly this setup to do recording, editing, and mixing when on the road.
Buy an iBook, or G4 PowerBook, and the above Digidesign hardware and software. That's what real pros do.
See Digidesign's website .
Sure, that's what they said about Sony's DAT. Then poof, it was encumbered with DRM that kept you from making copies of your own music, recitations, bird calls, introspective silence, farts or anything as if it were owned by Micahel Jackson. We should not forget that twarted technology or the laws that did it.
It's taken this long to come up with an equivalent device. Want to bet the RIAA won't try to squash it? I would not bet on their failure.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
The problem with this is it can piss a lot of companies off. Why? Well most big web sites are funded by advertising. Having hundreds of /. readers viewing their site is a lot of income. Were /. to make a mirror of their site, all that income would dissappear. I think this is actually considered theft by many sites... not sure what the courts feel.
/. should mirror it for a couple days and email the web master letting them know and offering to take the mirror down if the web master so desires. In the event there are ads they should email the webmaster of whatever site asking permission and while waiting for a response post the story as is... but this would be a whole lot of work for /.
Contacting the web master asking permission before posting would take far too long.
Me, I think if the site doesn't have any ads
Keep in mind I'm an idiot, so my thoughts should be taken with a 25 lb. grain of salt or three.
-Derick
I guess you, like 100s of other misguided /. devils advocates missed the VCR and DAT flaps, and the resulting Macrovision idiocy and DAT taxes.
Oh, and did we already mention the RIAA's attempts to legislate MANDATORY DRM into any device capable of recording sound digitally?
Well, the webcaster royalty payment law.
Then there was the AHRA from about 15 years ago (which killed off DAT as a consumer audio technology) Oh, and the levy on blank CDR's.
I dunno, did they lobby for the DMCA, or is 5 years too old to consider it? The reason the DMCA applies to DVD's is because they *do* include an access control technology. CDDA's don't. If you broke the access control technology on SACD, I'll bet you dollars to donuts that they'll come on you like a ton of bricks.
They've agreed to lobby against CBDTPA, however, we don't know what backroom deals were involved in this. Something like: ''The RIAA will stop pressuring Congress to institute mandatory copy-protection in new computers, and the tech groups will stop lobbying for enhanced personal-use rights to media.'' appears to be the case.
They're lobbying against MOCA.
... the band doesn't get even HALF the money (or even a quarter of it for some bands).
Most bands don't gen ANY money from a commercially-made recording.
There have been any number of analyses published that explain why, unless you sell a million or more albums, you end up in debt to the recording company.
I do wonder what sort of deal a n unknown musician or band needs to sign to get their stuff on iTunes. Do you have to sign the rights over to Apple? Or will they put your tracks up on terms that give you part of the money? So far, I haven't seen any comment on this, only that Apple was making the top-selling commercial music available. Any pointers to info on this topic?
If Apple will give us nobodies a reasonable cut of the income without having to sign away the rights to our music, we'll consider them heroes. If they go the way of the recording industry and require the same sort of "standard" contract, then they're just part of the problem.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.