Jerkoff Politicians at it again....

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arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070112-8609.html


Enjoy those radio shows you are recording now online, you may pine for those glory days soon.

[coldcardinal]

I generally find attempts to protect intellectual property producers from the free market to be overbearing and counterproductive, and this is no exception.

However, wouldn't this get us off the hook?

Broadcasters would be required to "use reasonably available and economically reasonable technology to prevent music theft." But that's not bad for consumers, says Sen. Feinstein, who tells us that "consumers' current recording habits" will not be inhibited as they will still be allowed to record by time period or station. However, they would be prevented from automatically cherry-picking all the Shakira songs from the services.

Or am I misreading it? (Or is Feinstein misstating it?)

[Alfred]

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Broadcasters would be required to "use reasonably available and economically reasonable technology to prevent music theft." But that's not bad for consumers, says Sen. Feinstein, who tells us that "consumers' current recording habits" will not be inhibited as they will still be allowed to record by time period or station. However, they would be prevented from automatically cherry-picking all the Shakira songs from the services.


"Or am I misreading it? (Or is Feinstein misstating it?)"





No Feinstein is not misstating anything.

It’s actually RIAA method of monitoring local copyrighted songs, wherein a radio show or radio entity would have to ask permission from its respective record label to air a particular song. Sony CBS & BMG labels are notorious for not giving out permission so don’t be surprise if you hear an edited version or don’t hear a particular track in some of your favorite countdown show in 2007 streaming on the net. The only solution is to listen to your respective local station instead of the internet stream.

This kind of censorship is not actually new in Australia & Europe (more particularly in UK) they have to edit a particular song if they can’t get permission. Thus a countdown would have many holes or blank spaces or they simply air the introduction without airing the whole track. In early 2006 many radio station steaming on the internet particularly Australia & UK implemented a rule that you’re internet IP address would have to be local to listen or access them.

Hope they don’t introduced those scheme here in the States as I’ll be pissed if I wouldn’t be able to listen to AT10 or AT20 via the internet when I’m visiting my family in Australia.

[spt72]

If the radio stations wanted to fight back - which they wont - they would simply just not air songs from companies like Sony CBS and BMG that will not let them stream the songs..... the popularity of worldwide streaming radio (like podcasts) is on the rise not the decline. You cant have holes every third song.

Sony needs to learn that exposure is king.

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alfred said:

Quote:
Broadcasters would be required to "use reasonably available and economically reasonable technology to prevent music theft." But that's not bad for consumers, says Sen. Feinstein, who tells us that "consumers' current recording habits" will not be inhibited as they will still be allowed to record by time period or station. However, they would be prevented from automatically cherry-picking all the Shakira songs from the services.


"Or am I misreading it? (Or is Feinstein misstating it?)"





No Feinstein is not misstating anything.

It’s actually RIAA method of monitoring local copyrighted songs, wherein a radio show or radio entity would have to ask permission from its respective record label to air a particular song. Sony CBS & BMG labels are notorious for not giving out permission so don’t be surprise if you hear an edited version or don’t hear a particular track in some of your favorite countdown show in 2007 streaming on the net. The only solution is to listen to your respective local station instead of the internet stream.

This kind of censorship is not actually new in Australia & Europe (more particularly in UK) they have to edit a particular song if they can’t get permission. Thus a countdown would have many holes or blank spaces or they simply air the introduction without airing the whole track. In early 2006 many radio station steaming on the internet particularly Australia & UK implemented a rule that you’re internet IP address would have to be local to listen or access them.

Hope they don’t introduced those scheme here in the States as I’ll be pissed if I wouldn’t be able to listen to AT10 or AT20 via the internet when I’m visiting my family in Australia.

Alfred,

You said "just listen on your local affiliate." Thats just it. Most every show I record online is because it does NOT air here, or the station that airs it **cough cough**WQIK**cough cough** screws up airing the shows. If these shows came on locally and were done right I would have no problem recording them from there, in fact, that is really my preferred method because then I dont have to worry about the internet going down, buffering, etc.

[tacomalo]

The big companies are completely out of touch and don't realize that they will be censoring themselves in the long run--as a new generation of music listeners will start to completely ignore the mainstream companies.

These are the same guys who were convinced that radio would kill live performances, that television would kill radio, that TV would kill off the movies, and that VCRs would kill TV and the Movies.

The role of every free market company is to corner and control the market...they can't do that anymore...the cat is WAAY out of the bag...but they will probably try and make our lives miserable as their companies deteriorate with 20th century thinking!

[Radioman]

Here's another one in that neverending story of radio and copyrighted music:

www.zdnetasia.com/news/business/0,39044229,61983813,00.htm