RIAA Moves In on Digital Radio
Found on Wired on Friday, 11 June 2004
Digital radio broadcasts that bring CD-quality sound to the airwaves could lead to unfettered song copying if protections are not put in place, a recording-industry trade group warned on Friday.
RIAA officials said digital-radio players could soon allow listeners to record certain songs automatically when they are broadcast, allowing them to build a free library of music they otherwise might pay for and distribute it to millions of others over the Internet.
XM Satellite Radio Holdings and Sirius Satellite Radio, which broadcast digital signals by satellite, do not pose the same risk because those companies would be hurt by song copying and thus have an incentive to limit it, RIAA officials said.
Does their greed knows no limits? Looking at all the efforts to ban everything (if they cannot make money from it) I'm waiting for the day when whistling becomes illegal. Speaking for myself, I will keep on and boycott them.