[acid-jazz] Radio on Demand

From: Tom Giles (thomas.giles@st-annes.oxford.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 14:00:28 CEST

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    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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