said by Nightfall :

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They aren't afraid of tape recorders.

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said by anon_brian:

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No, quality has nothing to do with it from a legal point of view. The law is the law. Whether I record a snowy picture of Hollywood Squares on a 2 head VCR, or record the Sopranos from an HDTV feed directly to a DVD, the law is the same and it's my right to do so. The same applies to music.

I admit that newer technology makes pirating an increased threat. But too bad. I enjoy recording internet radio so I can use it on my PDA while offline. I enjoy Tivo because it lets me watch content at another time.

Frankly, introducing copy protection measures into a digital stream of music should be ruled as illegal.

I'm really sick of the RIAA. Their lawsuits are extortion and now they're trying to regulate things beyond their control.

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said by Captain_Avat :

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"They were 20 years ago remember tape recorders were going to ruin the industry.... "

Try 35 years ago! I remember back in the 70's that the recording industry would strong-arm FM stations into not playing whole album sides to prevent people from taping their broadcast. Rumor had it that they pushed the whole talking over the intro and song endings too to foil any "bootleggers".(But I think that started back in the 50's). Back then FM, especially FM stereo was a real boon to music broadcasts. That along with ever improving recording technology more than made up for some of the loss in quality when taping. Not to mention while the audio quality of the music was pretty good most people had cheap tape players that masked most of the defects.

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said by Nightfall :

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They aren't afraid of tape recorders. They are afraid of the direct inputs to the digital radio. XM Satellite Radio has a system you can hook to your PC. If you know where to look, you can purchase a output and go directly to your computer where you can record hours of digial quality music straight to your PC. I know some people who do this and use a music editing program to take the music they want and save it to mp3s.

Quite a nice little system I might add.

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said by LordMalak :

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The RIAA never cared about analog copying due to generation loss. Copying digital content (CD-R, digital radio, MP3, etc.) bothers them because it's a perfect, bit-by-bit copy of the original.

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said by P Ness :

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said by Nightfall :

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They aren't afraid of tape recorders. They are afraid of the direct inputs to the digital radio. XM Satellite Radio has a system you can hook to your PC. If you know where to look, you can purchase a output and go directly to your computer where you can record hours of digial quality music straight to your PC. I know some people who do this and use a music editing program to take the music they want and save it to mp3s.

Quite a nice little system I might add.

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But the quality is no where near CD.....they cut down after 14k and its about 64k-86k tops....So i would not call this near digital quality

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