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NAB, RIAA May Seek Mandate For FM Radios In Mobile Devices
Trintech writes with this quote from an article at Ars Technica:
"Music labels and radio broadcasters can't agree on much, including whether radio should be forced to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars a year to pay for the music it plays. But the two sides can agree on this: Congress should mandate that FM radio receivers be built into cell phones, PDAs, and other portable electronics. The Consumer Electronics Association, whose members build the devices that would be affected by such a directive, is incandescent with rage. 'The backroom scheme of the [National Association of Broadcasters] and RIAA to have Congress mandate broadcast radios in portable devices, including mobile phones, is the height of absurdity,' thundered CEA president Gary Shapiro. Such a move is 'not in our national interest.' 'Rather than adapt to the digital marketplace, NAB and RIAA act like buggy-whip industries that refuse to innovate and seek to impose penalties on those that do.' But the music and radio industries say it's a consumer-focused proposition, one that would provide 'more music choices.'"
Duhhh I'm a consumer! I like all those funny thingz those personalities say on FM radio! Their just so clever with everything they think of! Where do they get that insightful information? And how do they know the same ten songs, all new, that I want to hear? Oh oh oh! Gotta be cultured, I think I'll listen to this classical station!
Durrrr Buy buy buy! Consume consume consume! What they've provided for me is good enough! I've gotta keep spending!
How the fuck can you enjoy broadcast radio and have an IQ above 80?
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
...its so cheap...
When you're counting tenths of a penny, it matters... Anyway, the machine should include some kind of closed captioning. braille, and wheelchair access, to comply with the ADA
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Nancy Pelosi, is that you?
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