Comments on: By-pass radio commercials

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:59:02 +0000

I got a mail from PopCatcher this morning. In short, the product shown in the picture, the MD-601, although already for sale in Europe will not be sold in the US. However, they say their team is developing a new product “more adapted to the American market” that will be released within 6 months. I suspect it is a docking station to dock iPods since that’s what Americans are known for. But I will not bet too much. Answer next summer.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:19:59 +0000

Yes, it would be totally scary if technology could enter the USA because it is wanted by the Americans and designed by American engineers.

But hey… Let us make our USA an isolated continent. Technology can develop in new forms in Europe and Asia instead Maybe USA can ban its IT-engineers and ask them to stop developing and go back to car manufacturing in Detroit. Maybe the big future is in oil driven cars and Europe and Asia can make the electrical cars and then maybe we in the USA can ban those awful electrical cars too…

I know Intel Mobile Solutions has had developers involved in this product. Please, make sure we do not ban yet another technology from us Americans!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:38:18 +0000

You’re correct, Alter_Fritz. I shouldn’t have written ‘DAB’. I don’t know why I did because I was also thinking to myself, “analog, with all its pops and hisses, is far better than digital for the same reason those big, black shiny discs called ‘records’ are better than CDs” : ) Anyhow, I’ve deleted ‘DAB’.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:16:31 +0000

on their page I read:

“The MusicDock is a portable MP3 player and a stand alone FM-radio with MP3 capture technology.”

Where is the “perfect digital copy” Digital Audio Broadcast part in the story?

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Alter_Fritz

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:53:45 +0000

sweden also has the TPB, so in old europe the clocks don’t tick totally in RIAA fashion!

It’s more likely that the RIAA will argue that the fact THAT it IS for sale in sweden already is a point that american consumers must be protected against it; sweden, piracy, yaarrr!
You know?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:26:30 +0000

I’d just like to add that this product already is for sale in Sweden, for 1199 SEK (170 dollar)

//magnus nilsson

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:07:12 +0000

The RIAA already tried to mandate an “audio flag” in 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Flag#Radio_broadcast_flag_and_RIAA

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:03:18 +0000

In the states it is perfectly legal to record off the air for analog stations.

One of the most amazing displays of audacity came to me when I heard some yoyo claiming that not hearing or watching commercials was stealing the tv programming for free.

Just because some corporation pays for advertisement is no guarantee I am interested in hearing it. I don’t care that they got hoodwinked into paying for the commercial or the air time. Nor do I award these yoyos that seem to think my listening time is dependent upon their good graces. When I go to some store, I don’t buy those products advertised. I buy what I know works.

My listening time is up to me. Commercials drive me away. Recently a radio station in my listening area figured out their listenership was dropping through the floor. Their solution was to drop a lot of the commercials. It’s a plain indication that too many ads drive people away.

I don’t watch public or paid tv anymore. Doing such has sharpened my dislike for commercials even more. I’ve gotten to where I don’t want to hear them. Not at all. Their just like the pest industry, someone you want to call the exterminator over to deal with.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:09:10 +0000

Thats what I hear as their “demo song” in the flash animation.

If that isn’t a secret hint…

http://www.popcatcher.com/how.html

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:00:57 +0000

since its swedish as I understand, could be that they are refering to sane swedish/european laws that -at the moment- still say it is legal to record songs they play on the radio for your own noncommercial private purpose in the way you want to record with or without shit you don’t want.!

But rest assured, the MAFIA will definetly buy a law -if they haven’t bought already- that makes it illegal for YOU to decide in which way you record what YOU want for your private non commercial -formerly known as “fair use”- use

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Alter_Fritz

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:45:25 +0000

“The PopCatcher MusicDock MD-601 recognizes any music category and captures the separate songs automatically, free of charge and legally.”

That doesn’t sound legal at all. According to a cinema broadcasting major (as opposed he is to the music industry) anything recorded from the radio is illegal. And to capture each song individually to keep it is blatantly illegal.