After reading all the posts on this topic, my personal view is this:
Badru's experiment does not seem to infringe on copyright law in my opinion. Afterall if all of us, setup our PCs to record these radio broadcasts and then accessed them later, would all of us also be accused of infringing on the IP rights of the performers who were featured on those shows? In the first place, those particular radios broadcast free of charge to everyone. If there are any IP issues, those issues are between the radio stations and the performers not between someone who provides an archive service and the performers.
Afterall the only difference here is the time period in which I listen to the broadcast. In one case I am listening to it live and in another I am listening to old stuff. Just like TVs do not pay again to do re- runs of a series they already paid for.
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