I have to tell you, I adore satellite Radio. I read with great incredulousness and sadness last week that the Recording Industry of America was keeping their lawyers in business with a silly lawsuit that wants to charge XM $150,000 per song recorded on the new genre of portable satellite radio receivers.
I have a problem with that. We are already paying $12.95 per month to listen to radio that is not determined by formula. It’s all about the music. You can’t copy or transfer the songs to someone else’s player.
Hey RIA XM actually sells songs for your members. I hear songs nearly every day that I like. I can press the memory button and the player remembers the song. Then, when I get on iTunes, I can PURCHASE the song and download it to my iPod. Then I can enjoy it anytime.
What the players do is just let us do what we have been doing with VCRs and DVRs for decades. It lets us time shift.
I have the original Delphi XM2GO. I couldn’t wait for it to come out when it was released two Christmases ago. The new portable receiver/recorders are smaller, have more memory and pack more features. Each day, I use my XM 2 Go to record two of my favorite programs on XM. At 11 a.m., there is a show devoted to fantasy baseball, called fantasy focus. It is an hour of nirvana. That show is followed immediately by Baseball Beat. Charley Steiner, the LA Dodgers announcer as well as ESPN and Yankee alum, hosts the two hour show of baseball columnists from all around the country. For the baseball fan, it truly is heaven.
By time shifting, I get to listen to those programs while I was driving to the airport Thursday morning and while I was in the air flying to Baltimore. Time to get off my soapbox. I want composers and artists to receive compensation for their intellectual property. I agree that the original Napster model was wrong. I have paid for many hundreds of dollars of music on iTunes and the new Napster. I just think that the RIA is a heavy handed organization that is using Draconian methods to maintain its position.
I have a problem with that. We are already paying $12.95 per month to listen to radio that is not determined by formula. It’s all about the music. You can’t copy or transfer the songs to someone else’s player.
Hey RIA XM actually sells songs for your members. I hear songs nearly every day that I like. I can press the memory button and the player remembers the song. Then, when I get on iTunes, I can PURCHASE the song and download it to my iPod. Then I can enjoy it anytime.
What the players do is just let us do what we have been doing with VCRs and DVRs for decades. It lets us time shift.
I have the original Delphi XM2GO. I couldn’t wait for it to come out when it was released two Christmases ago. The new portable receiver/recorders are smaller, have more memory and pack more features. Each day, I use my XM 2 Go to record two of my favorite programs on XM. At 11 a.m., there is a show devoted to fantasy baseball, called fantasy focus. It is an hour of nirvana. That show is followed immediately by Baseball Beat. Charley Steiner, the LA Dodgers announcer as well as ESPN and Yankee alum, hosts the two hour show of baseball columnists from all around the country. For the baseball fan, it truly is heaven.
By time shifting, I get to listen to those programs while I was driving to the airport Thursday morning and while I was in the air flying to Baltimore. Time to get off my soapbox. I want composers and artists to receive compensation for their intellectual property. I agree that the original Napster model was wrong. I have paid for many hundreds of dollars of music on iTunes and the new Napster. I just think that the RIA is a heavy handed organization that is using Draconian methods to maintain its position.
on May 27, 2006, 10:05 pm
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