MIT's New Music Sharing Network

tessaiga writes "The New York Times has an article about a new project at MIT to replace music file sharing over P2P with sharing over cable TV (reg free link). The Library Access To Music Project relies on the more relaxed copyright restrictions on analog transmission formats like cable. From the article: "M.I.T. students, faculty and staff can choose from 16 channels of music and can schedule 80-minute blocks of time to control a channel. The high-tech D.J. can select, rewind or fast-forward the songs via an Internet-based control panel. Mr. Winstein and Mr. Mandel created the collection of CD's after polling students." The article goes on to point out that this is (hopefully) legal under current laws because MIT already has a blanket license to broadcast music over analog media, and recording songs played over this system "would be no different from recording songs from conventional FM broadcasts"."

Comments

Such kind words

[nurb432]

Thanks for being so polite in pointing out that I mis-read one point in the summary.

I read it as they were broadcasting *digital* audio over their existing analog cable TV network and based my comment off that. ..

Are you always this fucking rude to people? ..

Re:Way to go. Not.

[Lord Kano]

The way to combat RIAA, etc isn't by shouting from the rooftops that you'll pirate/whatever you want to call it their music from now till doomsday.

You have the right to that opinion, but that doesn't make it a fact.

What you're saying is akin to saying that the black people in the south of the US shouldn't have had sit-ins and protests. They should have just spent their money at the stores that treated them properly. They should have just ridden in the back of the bus.

The simple fact is this, music piracy can not be stopped. The RIAA can find a way to make money using new technology, or they can lose millions. People like this guy reminding them that they're using the wrong tactics is just what is needed.

LK