THE MUSIC DOPE

comments on the machinations of the music industry

Sunday, October 24, 2004

The subscription model

Satellite radio is putting a hard drive on their receiver

Tivo for your radio.

If you had Tivo for your radio, why would you ever purchase a CD?

How will the RIAA address this? Well, it's fair use recording of the satellite signal for sure. So there's not really much for consumer rights issues. But if you were the RIAA, why would you authorize your signal to be transmitted like this via XM?

The RIAA needs to address this immediately.



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