Hi,
Just looked at the revamped BBC Radio 1 website, which now
offers radio on demand, i.e. you can stream any of the shows at
any time during the week, which is nice. i presume quite a few
other radio stations are doing this.
The question is: couldn't the whole peer-to-peer / mp3 sharing thing
be treated as a kind of radio on demand by the record industry in
stead of theft? The tricky problem here is just when you dl a song
you come to "own" a copy of it, which is unlike streaming radio
broadcasts. Would it be an acceptable solution not only to the
record companies but to the listeners to make it so we have to
stream mp3s from audiogalaxy, or whatever? On the other hand
the only company this would benefit would be the phone
companies, as we'd have to listen in real time!
Thoughts?
Tom
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