actually the riaa is in the process of killing the streamers as well as
the download services. see Velanche's rant...
and i think the bbc only streams in low quality real audio, which is no
where near the sound of mp3s. but i wonder how yesterdays ruling will
affect them and other non US based stations.
the music industry is working on their own services, pressplay and
others, to replace the p2p sharing apps. i think the differencebeing
that they dont share, they're not free, you cant burn songs to listen to
anywhere other than your computer and there's a very limited number of
track available. sounds great.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,51843,00.html
kris
Tom Giles wrote:
> 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
--streaming.electronic.music.data http://www.tempersTantrum.com
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