| blame yourself free enterprise if they lower the price on anything their profits will fall, still be huge but lower then previouse years, how can this CEO explain that to the stock holders? he will get fired
the blame is all on free enterprise, u want freedom u got it, can't have it both way's
unless u protest, boycott the company and get their sales down, then they may rethink their business model, but no one does any protests any more, at least not protest of any significant number of people |
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1 edit | Its all just silly BS now. You can record all the near CD quality mp3's you want legally now. They are delivered to you directly from your local radio stations using digital transmission. Its called HD Radio and it is completely legal to record any radio transmission that uses our public airwaves.
There is software called HD RadioPC that makes recording the songs broadcast from an HD Radio station
completely automatic. IOW, you do not need to sit there with your finger on a record/stop button, the software detects the start and stop of the song and saves each song to an individual high bitrate mp3 complete with all title and artist information. |
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| said by id_deleted:You can record all the near CD quality mp3's you want legally now. They are delivered to you directly from your local radio stations using digital transmission. Its called HD Radio and it is completely legal to record any radio transmission that uses our public airwaves.
Emphasis added.
Not so. Cell phones use our public airwaves, and it is illegal to even so much as listen in on a cell phone call, let alone record it.
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Michigan City, IN | said by ruraltn:said by id_deleted:You can record all the near CD quality mp3's you want legally now. They are delivered to you directly from your local radio stations using digital transmission. Its called HD Radio and it is completely legal to record any radio transmission that uses our public airwaves.
Emphasis added.Not so. Cell phones use our public airwaves, and it is illegal to even so much as listen in on a cell phone call, let alone record it. Tell that to the government. But wait..the government owns us.
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Cell phone conversations are protected by privacy laws, not even the same thing. They do not even use FM or AM radio frequencies. The fact is, they get recorded every single day and it is totally legal. Every time you call a business and they play the "this call may be recorded for technical purposes" you give your consent if you continue the call. Of course the real reason they record the call is for legal purposes in the event you open yourself to a lawsuit for some reason. For more info do a search on the "one party consent law".
The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 protects your rights to record any broadcast that uses our public airwaves, but only for private use. The term "public airwaves" refers to a specific frequency range. That is also why it is legal to record FM radio with your cassette recorder, although that is obviously not going to sound real good by today's standards. 
This same law offers no legal rights to record either satellite or internet radio broadcasts, since neither use the defined spectrum of our airwaves for broadcasting, and the courts have ruled both to be a "private or fee based broadcast". The once popular XM PCR was pulled from the shelves to avoid the litigation that would have inevitably shut them down.
The sorry fact is that most folks who feel it feasible to download or pirate commercial works continue to do so until they get snagged, even when they are offered a completely legal alternative. It has a lot to do with morality in general, or in this case the lack of even the simplest of moral responsibilities. The rest of us are quite thrilled by the fact that we can now legally obtain that music hit just released with a recording quality suitable for even the most discerning ear for free. In my case, I am expanding my collection of oldies rock hits to an unbelievable degree (over 100 songs per day). |
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ehhh, cell phones are not PUBLIC airwaves.. They're assigned to private frequencies that they pay for and get licenses to operate on. True, radio stations also need broadcasting licenses, but they don't buy exclusive licenses to the frequencies on which they broadcast. Those frequencies are still government property. |
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Those spectrum auctions allow parties to bid on licenses to use the spectrum, not to own it.
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