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Craftycorner
March 9th, 2007, 02:46 PM
Online Radio is in danger. There's a new bill called the Perform Act.

Can you tell me how this will effect Linux & Linux users? I like to record radio streams using Audacity.:confused:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005072.php

The new Congress has barely begun, but the major record labels are already up to their old tricks.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein has re-introduced the PERFORM Act, a backdoor assault on your right to record off the radio. Satellite and digital radio stations as well as Internet webcasters would have to adopt digital rights management (DRM) restrictions or lose the statutory license for broadcasting music. Letters from constituents like you helped beat this dangerous proposal last year -- take action now to block it again.

This bill aims to hobble TiVo-like devices for satellite and digital radio. Such devices would be able to include "reasonable recording" features, but that excludes choosing and playing back selections based on song title, artist, or genre. Want to freely move recordings around your home network or copy them to the portable player of your choice? You'll be out of luck if PERFORM passes.

This bill would also mess with Internet radio. Today, Live365, Shoutcast, streaming radio stations included in iTunes, and myriad other smaller webcasters rely on MP3 streaming. PERFORM would in effect force them to use DRM-laden, proprietary formats, so you can say goodbye to software tools like Streamripper that let you record programming to listen to it later.

Tell your representatives to reject this bill now.

Craftycorner
March 9th, 2007, 02:48 PM
put it in right forum, don't know how to delete it off wrong forum tho.

easyease
March 9th, 2007, 02:52 PM
new world order fascism at its finest.

easyease
March 9th, 2007, 02:53 PM
Mind you America doesnt really control the whole planet..........or does it?

bapoumba
March 9th, 2007, 03:44 PM
@ Craftycorner: merged your other thread in here.

billdotson
March 9th, 2007, 03:50 PM
is recording radio streams legal anyway.. if the music is copyrighted?

Tomosaur
March 9th, 2007, 04:47 PM
Not strictly, no - but it's a ridiculous world where the powers that be are really concerned about it. It sickens me to think that legal proceedings would be taken against someone who records stuff from the radio - internet or otherwise. I have recorded stuff - but it's not like I have pirated the whole album, is it? If I want the album, I'll buy it. It's just convenient to record radio stations that you like rather than creating a mix CD or whatever of your own.