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"Whats to stop me from using my TiVO, or better yet Video capture card to record the digital music stations on my digital cable, and than record it as an mp3, its all fair use as long as I don't make any money on it."

They tried the same things with vcr and lost, just a matter of time, the soft money will keep it alive for awhile before it gets shot down in the end

Media companies want PLAY Protection, not Copy Protection, that why they can sell a license for the PLAYER and the MEDIA - bet if the courts ruled that the license was to be included in the media only, the media companies would back off in a heart beat
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All that does  AbsolutelyNot | 08/27/04
Analog recording ILLEGAL?  kd5auq | 08/27/04
XM Radio is digital  archerjoe | 08/30/04
XM Digital  fondy | 08/30/04
Digital and Analog  rborchert | 08/30/04
A Rose by any other name  schughes@... | 08/27/04
exactly  Valis Keogh | 08/27/04
In other news...  tic swayback | 08/27/04
I wonder if they realize  jfp | 08/27/04
That reminds me  AbsolutelyNot | 08/27/04
What an incentive!  Amberhawk | 08/30/04
exactly  V Sanders | 08/29/04
same old song and dance  bony tryan | 08/27/04
OH WAAAAA!!  itanalyst | 08/27/04
XM is going to DICONTINUE the PCR over this ...  worknman | 08/27/04
Good point  AbsolutelyNot | 08/27/04
CAN IT LET ME PLAY HALO2 ON LINUX  itanalyst | 08/27/04
Is the RIAA stupid?  voska | 08/27/04
Is the RIAA stupid?  msdead | 08/30/04
Off-air recording is legal, tis said  amicus_curious | 08/27/04
Sorry RIAA, you will lose this one, big time.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/27/04
Wow, this must be first  voska | 08/27/04
The problem will mostlikely be the XM TOS  ITchicksRULE | 08/27/04
MP3 tools  Melmac_z | 08/27/04
so lets go back to VHS tapes and Cassette tapes  V Sanders | 08/27/04
media companies have legit businesses running scared  V Sanders | 08/27/04
Doesn't sound any different from a cassette tape  CobraA1 | 08/27/04
it's not - the media companies tried to ban those to claiming the same  V Sanders | 08/29/04
if you PAY 9.99 a month - then is like cable  V Sanders | 08/29/04
Better get rid of my tape recorder and vcr  cybershoplifter | 08/30/04
p.s. any interest I had in your product is now vapor  cybershoplifter | 08/30/04
allofmp3 - 5 cents per song, nuff said!  cybershoplifter | 08/30/04
Just proves the RIAA right...  msdead | 08/30/04
Timeshifting is fair use...  boomslang_z | 08/30/04

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