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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. People do this already! by reub2000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ever hear of taping a song off the radio. A lot of people do it.

    Git off ma fair use before aye shoot ya.

  2. Re:What would be cool... by Dun+Malg · · Score: 5, Insightful
    is if the RIAA created a new digital radio that had a CDR in it, and the user could select "download & rip" for 1$ like in iTunes and the radio would compress the song into FLAC, ogg, or mp3, and burn it to the next track.

    No, you see, that would be innovation. The RIAA isn't a company that comes out with products, it's an association of old-school record companies trying to protect their old-school business model.

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  3. Re:When will it ever end?? by rpozz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unfortunately, the main RIAA customer base is dumb kids who buy manufactured crap like Westlife etc. They will continue to buy that shit and continue to fund these retards.

  4. Re:When will it ever end?? by sarah_kerrigan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hello,

    They don't want it to end, that is the plain answer. The RIAA lives of the customers who buy "legal" music (they never remember the Creative Commons license, isn't that curious?). They are not interested in the earnings of the artists, of course; they only stand for their own earnings. Take into account that a musician earns more money playing in concerts, than selling discs.

    To sum up: money rules.

    Muaaaaaaaaks
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  5. What else are we as a nation willing to discard? by dpilot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remember Digital Audio Tape? Wanna go buy one?
    Look at what the DMCA is doing to reverse engineering.
    Look at what's being discussed to close the 'analog hole'.

    Our nation is sacrificing it's technological competitiveness in the name of the entertainment industries. We have already sacrificed a LOT, though it's still reversible.

    One of my Senators is Patrick Leahy, and maybe it's time for me to become a single-issue voter. His response to my last letter on this was not satisfactory, I need to try again - well before November.

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  6. Remarkably forthright, coming from them. by Aquillion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The comment about fears of "cherry-picking" songs probably tells more about the industry's real fears than they intended. Their biggest fear, I think, isn't simply about piracy (which can always be fought as a crime) but that listeners will become accustomed to listen to what they want, when they want. The existing structure of the music industry depends on using the radio and favorable product placement to boost certain artists; that's why those artists are willing to sign such unfavorable contracts. If the people in charge of the music industry lose control of popular taste, they're finished no matter what else happens.