This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Agile Buzz
by James Robertson.
Original Post: Into the Wayback Machine Again!
Feed Title: Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants
Feed URL: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/rssBlog/rssBlogView.xml
Feed Description: James Robertson comments on Cincom Smalltalk, the Smalltalk development community, and IT trends and issues in general.
Professor Peabody has been busy - I note that the RIAA thinks it's 1970, and taping music from the radio will kill - kill, I tell you - the business:
As satellite and digital radio offers a very wide range of music to choose from, the music industry is eager to control what consumers can do with radio broadcasts. According to the music industry, if consumers are given the opportunity to record music from digital radio, they will likely start recording songs instead of purchasing them. Last year, the RIAA began proposing a broadcast flag type system and now they are in negotiations with satellite radio companies, such as XM about controlling what their listeners can do.
Yeah, all those mix tapes I made back in college prevented me from buying the truckload of CD's sitting in front of me. Want a sure way to kill XM? Make it so that I can't do anything with it.