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1. Bradleyscott wrote:

   This should be interesting to see what happens. This is truly the mixing of technology and figuring out what is right and wrong. Basically in the Analog world, I work in radio and a radio station pays for the rights to play songs. A long time ago the invention of the casette tape was out in the public and fights ensued about that and VHS and being allowed to record shows/songs as they aired over tv/radio.

   It was ultimately decided that the public was allowed to record whatever came off the airwaves and there is nothing that the industry could do to stop them…

   Fast forward to internet radio stations. It is the same concept, paid to play songs in a somewhat random fashion. So would this be the equivilant to the next generation of “tape recorders” or would this be “downloading music illegally”?

   Posted 10 May 2006 at 2:05 pm ¶
2. JonnyRo wrote:

   I’m not saying this wouldnt be useful, but I’d rather not get the creators of pandora.com into legal hot water.

   Does XM radio offer customized stations yet. i’m not talking about instant feedback, but some mechanism on the player device that captures the user decision and when near a wireless access point or network connection sends that data up to XM.

   Hell, even an XM offline device would be cool, a music keg that could be updated regularly. This whole beaming over satellite thing is a bit too agressive in my book, when semi regular updating of a music database in the player would be almost as effective.

   Pandora is so close to my ideal, i just wish i could listen to it in the car. Another setback for me is that I use linux, and pandora often crashes in the flashplayer 7 currently available in linux. They need to open source their protocol so that non flash implementations can be created, even if subscription access is required to access.

   Posted 15 May 2006 at 8:33 pm ¶

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