Apparently the RIAA, at least as demonstrated by their actions, feels that one has to have the CD in their possesion to be allowed to play the sounds from that CD. XM Satellite Radio has a huge hard disk music library and they made an explicit agreement with the RIAA to broadcast the music over their satellites. Interestingly enough, the RIAA agreement requires XM to store all the physical CDs, even though XM pays the RIAA when they air them, anyway. (I don't remember normal radio stations being under that restriction from my days in radio.) I guess the RIAA wants to be able to point to XM as an example that they expect us to retain all of our CDs.
It gets interesting when one gets to the area of legal downloads, especially DRM-free. One pays for the download and ends up with a file on their hard drive, but no physical token like the CD. I guess more progressive recording types realize that, for most intents, we're on the honor system anyway these days. -- Timothy Stockman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy Stockman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8867 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36487 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
