Comments on: Big Music versus HD Radio http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6201 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6201/comment-page-1#comment-20728 Reader's Write Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:07:00 +0000 #comment-20728 The twisted copyright laws that RIAA has purchased from washington are the foundation of all the problems, they refuse to abide by and accept the laws that booth sides of the fence agreed with. Monoply, total control is the RIAA (all entertainment industry as well) benchmark they are aiming for. American,s have a sence of fair play and most often comply with the rules even if they do not totally agree with them when the rules are balanced as best they can be. This is like the goverment trying to control drinking in the past, same program different item. The twisted copyright laws that RIAA has purchased from washington are the foundation of all the problems, they refuse to abide by and accept the laws that booth sides of the fence agreed with. Monoply, total control is the RIAA (all entertainment industry as well) benchmark they are aiming for. American,s have a sence of fair play and most often comply with the rules even if they do not totally agree with them when the rules are balanced as best they can be. This is like the goverment trying to control drinking in the past, same program different item.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6201/comment-page-1#comment-19912 Reader's Write Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:40:29 +0000 #comment-19912 Well that last sentence of yours provides the motivation for the riaa.. royalties... money. It's simple, they want to force ppl to pay to be able to hear music. I'm sure they're already drawing up plans so that if you overhear a mobile ringtone you're automatically billed for the "entertainment" you've just "enjoyed". Well that last sentence of yours provides the motivation for the riaa.. royalties… money.

It’s simple, they want to force ppl to pay to be able to hear music. I’m sure they’re already drawing up plans so that if you overhear a mobile ringtone you’re automatically billed for the “entertainment” you’ve just “enjoyed”.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6201/comment-page-1#comment-19890 Reader's Write Sun, 11 Sep 2005 01:10:37 +0000 #comment-19890 So how is so-called 'HD' Radio different than Internet Radio? Right now I can get hundreds of Internet Radio stations at 160+ kbps which approximates 'CD quality'. If you add in the stations that are 96 kbps and higher, the number is in the thousands. There's no technological copy protection on internet radio (at the moment). I can fire up StationRipper and rip dozens of streams at once on my 6Mbps DSL service. The only measures being taken appear to be by individual broadcasters who play games with transmitting the .mp3 tag information in order to hose the track cutting capability of a streamripper. They are doing this, not as a copy protection measure, but rather to dissuade rippers being run against their station for which they are footing the bill for bandwidth and the 7/10s of a cent per listener per hour for royalties. So how is so-called ‘HD’ Radio different than Internet Radio? Right now I can get hundreds of Internet Radio stations at 160+ kbps which approximates ‘CD quality’. If you add in the stations that are 96 kbps and higher, the number is in the thousands. There’s no technological copy protection on internet radio (at the moment). I can fire up StationRipper and rip dozens of streams at once on my 6Mbps DSL service.

The only measures being taken appear to be by individual broadcasters who play games with transmitting the .mp3 tag information in order to hose the track cutting capability of a streamripper. They are doing this, not as a copy protection measure, but rather to dissuade rippers being run against their station for which they are footing the bill for bandwidth and the 7/10s of a cent per listener per hour for royalties.

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