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RIAA Protests Digital Radio

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the digital-radio-not-ruined-yet dept.

prostoalex writes "Afraid that digital radio listeners might soon be able to cherry-pick certain songs and share them with others on the Internet, RIAA urged FCC to consider broadcast regulations that limit such copying. The National Association of Broadcasters is not too happy with RIAA's request, as more than three hundred broadcasters either have digital CD-quality radio, or are in the process of setting them up. Meanwhile, as MSNBC notes, products like The Bug from Pure Digital are already capable of recording digital radio."

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  1. Massinova by PrintError · · Score: 5, Informative

    Does anyone still remember Massinova? They offered near CD quality streams, a great request system, etc etc...

    And to thank them for their efforts, the RIAA sued and screwed em, and now that great Trance stream is no more.

    Long live Massinova.

    1. Re:Massinova by Kaimelar · · Score: 4, Informative
      Does anyone still remember Massinova? They offered near CD quality streams, a great request system, etc etc...

      And to thank them for their efforts, the RIAA sued and screwed em, and now that great Trance stream is no more.

      Ah, but it lives on at Massinova: Reborn -- http://massinova.db140.com/. The stream itself is at http://66.135.33.226:8000/listen.pls. The request system is gone, I'm afraid, but the tunes that made up the soundtrack of many late night coding sessions are still there. Enjoy!

      Also, you might want to think about helping to keep Massinova and other Webcasts up -- check out PeerCast.

  2. CD-quality... NOT. by weav · · Score: 5, Informative

    Last I heard, "HD Radio" was compressed using MPEG-4 AAC. I forget the bitrate, but it's likely around 128 Kbps. This is real good, but not CD-quality. Eric Weaver Chief Engineer, KFJC, 1993-1997

  3. Re:People do this already! by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 4, Informative

    I agreem.

    My understanding is that recording from radio is perfectly legal, and I wish it to remain legal and not encumbered by copy prohibitions.

    Where people go wrong is that it is just as illegal as it ever was to redistribute the content without permission, the only thing changing is that it is easier. Being easy to do doesn't make an argument for legalization - there were almost always things that are easy to do yet were still illegal.

  4. Re:What's next? by ZeissIcon · · Score: 5, Informative

    The piece was Allegri's Miserere and it was deemed too beautiful to be performed anywhere outside of the Sistine Chapel. There are numerous stories surrounding incident which is quite possibly one of the earliest urban legends. Anyway, the whole story is recounted here. Mozart may have reproduced the piece from memory after a 1769 visit (when he was 12). Mozart died in 1791, so it was "loosely" "around 1800" as the parent suggests.