JohnC
Mr. John
Premium
join:2000-09-22
Hamden, CT
| Just turn on the radio....
What is the big deal! Since when do we need a station to fit everyone's needs. It is simple capitalism.... if you want it, You got to pay for it. The free internet is a dream. The Bandwidth Gods are going to come home and they want to get paid! I like free, but you have to realize that the mighty dollar controls all.....
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See all that stuff in there Homer? That's why your robot didn't work! |
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TheEternalTroll
join:2000-12-01
Knoxville, TN
| You want to know something funny? I have never head of streamripper or even knew it was possible to rip a stream till I read this. Thank you RIAA. On another note, if they do some encrpyting or some other crap to prevent this, ill just use my other computer as a recorder and connect the sound cards together. I still win. The RIAA will not win, they will only show the world how greedy they are. |
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Anon | reply to JohnC
The big deal is that record labels who own copyrights have NEVER received any royalties in the US when copyrighted songs are broadcast over the air. Instead artists and publishers get royalties, collected on their behalf from broadcasters by music licensing services such as ASCAP. But under the 1998 US DMCA law, copyright owners like record labels are also entitled to royalties whenever their copyrighted material streamed digitally online!
So for now stations that broadcast over the air like FM and TV only have to pay licensing royalties. Stations that stream on the Internet have to pay licensing royalties AND record label royalties. Now what fee structure applies when you stream IP over the air to cellphones, PDAs and portable MP3 players? Hmmm.
But anyway this is how 1998 DMCA reads right now. The RIAA for their part have proposed record label royalties of 0.4 cents per listener for every song streamed. At DI Radio we had 2000+ listeners on the Trance streams the last I looked. So if we play 12 songs online this hour, we would owe the labels $100. Just for an hour! And the RIAA wants this made retroactive to 1998. Where is that money going to come from? THAT is the big deal... |
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Anon |  More Re: Just turn on the radio....
I should add, those proposed record label $$ amounts are in addition to, and very much greater than, the licensing fees already paid. In all likelihood whatever price the DMCA arbitration panel agrees to between broadcasters and the RIAA will be very much less than this. But the question still remains... why are broadcasts online subject to such a charge, while traditional broadcasts over the air are exempt?? |
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Ari
@206.64.x.x | someone said because it's the law, so that means they are supposed to be exempt because it's just right (don't even question why, you aren't worthy)  ) |
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