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Digital radio broadcasts that bring CD-quality sound to the airwaves
could lead to unfettered song copying if protections are not put in
place, a recording-industry trade group warned. |
Does this strike anyone else as more petty bulls**t? They will have
absolutely no way of monitoring or controlling people who record
digital broadcasts so why try to enforce restrictions? All they're
doing is further distancing themselves from the filthy song-stealing
public.
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| RIAA officials said digital-radio players could soon allow listeners to record certain songs automatically when they are broadcast |
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Under restrictions proposed by the RIAA, listeners would be able to record digital broadcasts for later playback, but would not be able to divide that broadcast up into individual songs | |
Next thing you know, we won't be allowed to record a single television show at a time, and then... ...the next logical step:
Make camcorders and other cameras illegal. Or better yet, we could just make all new digital electronics illegal, to help "protect the record industry". Seriously, there are some near-sighted people out there coming up with these foolishly slaphappy restrictions.
[addsig]Maybe the Record and Movie industries should focus on
a) making their products reasonably priced
b) making music/movies that are worth buying for said price
Most movies aren't worth the bandwidth to download for free, much less the $$ to see in them in theatres or on dvd. And I mostly use P2P to try out new music and anime- the best of which I then buy on cd or dvd. I think part of the reason for the anime craze in the US is the low quality of home-grown entertainment.
The real danger of P2P is that it lets people get into more varieties of music- rather than buy the same 5 albums everyone else does, which is what the record industry wants.
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The real danger of P2P is that it lets people get into more varieties of music- rather than buy the same 5 albums everyone else does, which is what the record industry wants. |
Good point. Never looked at it that way.
Since I started downloading music I've expanded my musical tastes beyond mainstream rock and grunge to include punk and metal and discovered a bunch of bands I now really enjoy. Every CD I've bought in the last two years was a direct consequence of downloading mp3s, and I've managed to double my music collection AND have increased my overall enjoyment of music. If only the RIAA would pull their heads out of their asses and realize that many people are just like me... 
As for anime, some of it is very creative and some of it is so nonsensical and random that its stupid. Or its crappy animated porn. To each their own, but I must say that most of the people in the anime club at my university who take it really seriously and aren't Japanese are the kinds of people I want to stuff in a locker and flex my soccer-playing muscles. 
If only we had lockers and I still played soccer 
| ? posted by Yak_Fighter |
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Since I started downloading music I've expanded my musical tastes beyond mainstream rock and grunge to include punk and metal and discovered a bunch of bands I now really enjoy. Every CD I've bought in the last two years was a direct consequence of downloading mp3s, and I've managed to double my music collection AND have increased my overall enjoyment of music. If only the RIAA would pull their heads out of their asses and realize that many people are just like me... As for anime, some of it is very creative and some of it is so nonsensical and random that its stupid. Or its crappy animated porn. To each their own, but I must say that most of the people in the anime club at my university who take it really seriously and aren't Japanese are the kinds of people I want to stuff in a locker and flex my soccer-playing muscles. |
Ditto.
[addsig]
My opinion on this is that there isnt anything the RIAA can do, therell always be ways to copy music/movies, its part of the nature of the medium. I think they should just stop trying (since all they are is a minor annoyance at most).
I've never paid money for music, and I dont plan on doing so.
[addsig]
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| all you have to do is take that S-video cable, or speaker out, and plug it into a computer! Bingo a perfect copy! are they so stupid that they don't realize this? |
| ? posted by Alien_Sniper | ||
Does this strike anyone else as more petty bulls**t? They will have absolutely no way of monitoring or controlling people who record digital broadcasts so why try to enforce restrictions? All they're doing is further distancing themselves from the filthy song-stealing public. |
You know, I can actually illeagally copy music off that Doom Music website via an analog sound set up Hells bells, you can copy a music video off the internet as long as you have an analog sound set up. A tape, few wires, a VHS machine, and your ready to be a criminal!
(Guess who does this?)
Yippie Ki Yay!
EDIT: Which means, I don't need no bogus jive super flix air radio signal to illeagally copy music. 
| ? posted by DesPlesda | ||
They do indeed realise this. How long will it be, I wonder, before we start seeing sound cards lacking a microphone socket? I mean, nobody really needs them, do they? |
Well, sound people do. Personnaly, I think most of the music out there kind of stinks anyway. And its not a mic in put that you copy analog signal through -- its your in put jack on your sound card. Remember: mic is mono. Input is stereo. Mic has low voltage. Input has high voltage. 
Yippie Ki Yay!
[addsig]| ? posted by DesPlesda |
| They do indeed realise this. How long will it be, I wonder, before we start seeing sound cards lacking a microphone socket? I mean, nobody really needs them, do they? |
only privacy issue nuts wouldn't use them i suppose..
while i ran [DRS] i used ICQ's live chat nearly every day.. it worked nearly flawlessly and made communicating so much more efficient..
this forum here, is the only place i have been on line, that actually discourages live chats.. i have tried numerous times to get my fellow pitters to gab in real time.. all but a couple... refused.
otherwise.. i never use my mic.
[addsig]
