Also, CDs and DAT tapes (and I believe hard drives now) are also taxed with a "copyright" charge that some how in some way goes towards copyrighted materials.
There is nothing under current copyright law that would prevent this. The new laws being enacted will prevent this, though, and take away most of our rights as consumers.
Jerry Johnson
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Would this even be possible though? For this to be legal, the artist needs to be paid a small royalty for every download of their song. However, if their songs are streaming, and XM has no way of tracking if, when, or how often you are converting a streamed song to mp3....how would they track and pay royalties?
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Campbell
To: CF-Community
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: Today sucks so far
True, but I would be willing to pay more for an XM account to have the
ability to (officially) yank music off of the stream for my library.
Of course it's hackable (everything is), but so are AAC's, and Apple
hasn't yanked iTunes. And, being able to go straight from air to iPod
to iTunes would be terrific.
- Jim
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