If you can hear it then you can record it. They certinally wouldn't go for
that. Maybe if they were paid a lot for it they would.
quoted 21 lines Hi,
> 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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