RIAA is getting smarter

[jinxy]

Cant speak for American radio, but at least one radio show, (Steve Wrights on radio 2) States quite clearly at the end of each show. "are material is copywright"

I believe that it is technicaly elligal to tape radio copy cds etc. Its just nearly impossible to enforce the law in these situations.

[Acrylic]

really whos going to catch you ripping an internet radio station? even if you are listening to it you still have to download it to hear it, just dont share it and you will be fine. IMHO

[soia]

Just leave it to the RIAA to do something like this. I swear they have it all wrong. They should endorse file sharing by all means. Artists dont make money by cd sales they make more money by shows. Being an avid music fan and having attended many many shows in my lifespan, which isnt that long to begin with, I support the artists by being at the show and having a great freakin time. If they forget about profits for half a second and think at what music is supposed to be doing, bringing people together, then they might actually be something good.

Alright take it ease

[RoadClosed]

I have often made the Radio argument in defence to P2P. But if you think about it, just copying the music via radio (in my case digital cable) isn't really the issue. If you rebroadcast it or burn a cd and give it to someone else, you can argue that you are breaking the law. Even if you give it away for free. Unfortunately, as people are arrested and punished, less music will be available to sample on P2P until another means to distribute it come available. The RIAA will lose because someone will always be motivated to circumvent their efforts and negative PR on the organization is continuing to gain a foot hold. OMG, I can't even imagine how much they are spending on this campaign. Just the term RIAA makes me angry because I see them as a threat to continued privacy on the internet.

Oh BTW, a VCR tape makes an excellent audio tool. Even on SLP the audio is GREAT. 6-8 hours of audio for pennies. Even on low grade media. They make great party tapes.

[tonybradley]

Oh BTW, a VCR tape makes an excellent audio tool. Even on SLP the audio is GREAT. 6-8 hours of audio for pennies. Even on low grade media. They make great party tapes.

That's funny. I haven't done that in awhile now that I have 80Gb hard drives, CD and DVD recorders and such- but I used to use video tapes to record audio only for that reason.

I also used them to record non-music audio tapes like Zig Ziglar or Jim Rohn. I would buy these audio cassette series that had like 10 or 12 tapes in them. Rather than having to flip the tape or remove and replace the tape constantly I would copy the whole series to a video tape so I could play it straight through.

[Juridian]

There is a related paper on secfocus about this type of work by the riaa. I'll see if I can find the link and post it up.

Found it - http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/160

[Lv4]

ok I'm going to have to go do some research on this, but I vaugely remember part of the reason you can legally record airwave radio (AM/FM) is because the radio wave technology was developed by the US gov't using taxpayers dollars. Then the rights to those frequencies were given to the US public making radio "free" for us to use... it's also the reason your local television is "free" too and they can't charge you for access to just those channels.

Anyway, part of the Fair Use Act covers radio waves (if I am remembering correctly) which lays it out that it is completely legal for us to record off of a radio wave. Now that may be changing a bit with the advent of IBOC and "digital" radio as they are no longer broadcasting on the AM/FM waves that are owned by the public.

[IFixDaWindoze]

I think I would kill someone if I just downloaded a few hundred songs at $0.99 a peice, downloaded one song for free and had that one song delete all of the others.

[a_person]

What i'm worried about is what if it doesn't stop here, what if they try to stop everything going on on the internet that they don't want. Call me stupid, but i think you should be able to do whatever you want on the internet(except for like stealing credit card numbers and stalking an such).

[gamernewbie]

Originally posted here by a_person
Call me stupid, but i think you should be able to do whatever you want on the internet(except for like stealing credit card numbers and stalking an such).

I shall be the first to call you stupid. My own opinion against you. I think that is the worse most ignorant way to go about things. except for cc #'s and stalking huh? What about kiddie porn, hacking into something that isn't yours, I mean there is a big list of not only unethical things that you can do but also illegal. Yes something should be done what the RIAA is doing might be extreme but you can't say that everything on the internet is ok. Well you can say it but it holds no water.