On 24/11/2007, Stuart Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Tristan Ferne said the following on 23/11/07 09:39: > > > > The programmes on the Radio Player are presented as streams only. The > > BBC's agreements with rights holders prevent the BBC from authorising > > copies being made of internet audio streams. > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > Tristan > > Why is this, because it is pretty simple to copy the stream to a file > and and save it. I read the terms and conditions and there was nothing > to prevent me doing this for my personal use.
As any bitstream can be stored in a file, the difference is simply the marketing angle; a stream is simply a packetized file that is delivered in more-or-less real time. So what you are really saying is that as long as it is not generally > known that saving streams is easy to do, then this is fig leaf to > placate the rights holders. Yeah, from the very same tree that gives us DRM... And why is this different to the broadcast radio where there are plenty > of devices that allow the recording of a radio program. Because when it is broadcast it's a single one-to-many pipe, streaming is lots of small pipes.. http://www.alionsoft.com/ or my little script file that uses mplayer > http://wardrowntree.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/articles/listenagain.sh see > > http://wardrowntree.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/archives/2007/08/index.html#e2007-08-18T10_48_09.txt > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
