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[hostito]

New bill would ban mp3 streaming. What do you all think? I emailed the Senators stating my opposition to the idea and how it would impact our business and industry negatively.

"Buried in the bill, however, is a provision that would effectively require music webcasters to use DRM-laden streaming formats, rather than the MP3 streaming format used by Live365, Shoutcast, and many smaller webcasters (like Santa Monica's KCRW and Seattle's KEXP). The streaming radio stations included in iTunes also rely on MP3 streams (since Apple isn't about to license the Real or Microsoft streaming codecs)."

more here:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004587.php

Curious what you all think...

[SimonDurkee]

I don't think it'll ever go through.

What happens when someone figures out how to record a supposedly DRM'ed stream? Will all the streams be violating the law since the stream became recordable?

[hostito]

I think DMCA may make that sort of technology illegal, so it would have to go underground. Not sure...

[cywkevin]

Everytime to do something society finds a way to skirt the law and make piracy faster/more efficient possibly even harder to track.

[Bryc3]

Yea, also downloading illegal mp3s and software is against the law. It has only grown.

[Evolver]

So since its mp3 why not go with OGG? Even better go offshore and use p2p streaming.

[tamasrepus]

Originally Posted by Evolver

So since its mp3 why not go with OGG? Even better go offshore and use p2p streaming.

Check the OP's link: the bill would not ban not just MP3, but any format not crusted in DRM, including Ogg, FLAC, whatever.

[Kiamori]

If I'm reading this correctly its complete bs, you can't take a bands right to record in any format they wish and sell it over the internet. We have plenty of local bands that don't have record deals that just sell mp3 of there own music though our shopping cart. How can they legally prevent them from doing this. It's there own right to do what ever they want with there own music.

Bunch of bureaucratic bull

It pisses me off that they can even try to get away with stuff like this these days.

In essence this would kill our music community making it almost impossible to sell music unless your backed by a record company... Sounds like a monopoly to me!

Just another law to make sure the large corps stay above everyone else.

[NyteOwl]

What happens when someone figures out how to record a supposedly DRM'ed stream? Will all the streams be violating the law since the stream became recordable?

You can record Real streams now, convert them to wav/mp3/whatever.

The stupidity and desire of politicians to bend over for corporate never ceases to amaze me.