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An Answer to the Piracy Debate

LukeSteele	Date: March 27, 2005 @ 10:53 PM I'd like your views on this idea. What is the difference between listening to the radio and requesting your fave song to be played and listening to a stream of your fave song online? CONS OF RADIO REQUESTS 1. You may wait forever to get it played. 2. The ads you have to endure. 3. It may never happen. So my idea is this: Simply get every record company with product out there to make ALL OF their product available as a stream ONLY so that folk have the pleasure and convenience to listen to what they want at a lofi or hifi standard and then if they really like that artists latest release, they go and BUY it either online or at the record store. Im not talking 30 second samples or only selected songs here. I mean the whole damn album. This takes away the criminal element of downloading and stops people getting sued and allows us all to share the joy of this digital age. Im sure radio stations will scream in horror at this suggestion as it may remove them from the food chain but so what? The majority must rule in a true democracy. Awaiting some informed opinions, thanx. Luke
pog	Date: March 28, 2005 @ 2:34 AM hmmm.... programs such as winamp have output plugins such as diskwriter that allow you to output your streams to a wave file on your harddrive. You would still need to fund it somehow to host these streams, so banner-ads would be there at the very least. People can often already get the whole albums for free in mp3 format, so they may not wish to use the bandwidth involved in streaming a song every time they want to listen. The concept on not getting in trouble for it may be attractive to some people. There are a lot of streams out there that play music content, such as shoutcast... I daresay they have ones that you can request songs on.
LukeSteele	Date: March 28, 2005 @ 6:14 AM DRM using .wma files doesnt allow you to even play a song on a PC unless you have the licence on your drive. So streaming is a way of stopping copying of music from one pc to another, even if its free. As for winamp plugins,you're missing the point. Its to stop anyone being sued for currently downloading and sharing mp3's. Im sure if we all could simply call up any song we desired to stream that would negate filesharing dramatically and also give the RIAA a fantastic market research tool to see WHAT people want to hear. Im ok with banner ads sheesh..lets not get too greedy here. Why should I request a song from Shoutcast when I could simply play it when I want it for free and not when some Dj wants to?

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