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ok.. theres alot of programs out there that allow you to record a part of a live stream. well theres the other way just streaming and opening an editing program ::) but anyway recording a stream... is it illegal? in one way or another i think it is.. if you redistribute apart of that stream then yes i think but if your recording to listen later or podcast it.

 

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Very true James, but if the station that people are ripping from pays royalties....then they are in a way stealing from the station. I understand if someone wants to rip and then listen later on their own time, but quite a few people rip and then send it out as their own podcast, etc....That would be considered stealing to me!
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Lets face it...there is no real way to prevent stream ripping. Sure you can setup some proprietary stream player, but anyone with a decent soundcard and recorder can rip the music as it's played! It's no different than recording a song off FM stereo directly to tape in a boombox. And I think we've all done that at some point! Unless we start putting something in over the music as it plays, like some kind of audio watermark that says something every 10 seconds. Listeners will leave in droves if we did that!

 

The biggest problem we as broadcasters face is the Gestapo tactics of the RIAA and the Labels. They represent a dinosaur of a business model they want to keep alive! And many similar organizations around the world are either following their lead or are pushed into it by the RIAA. Terrestrial AM/FM pays NO performace royalties, they pay a small royalty for the songwriters/producers. They consider the music they play to be a "service" to the artists as promotion! Yet, Satellite radio only pays 6% of revenues and Cable radio only pays 7.5% of revenues. Internet Radio is expected to pay for each song played and each listener who hears that song. Under the old CARP agreements we payed a fraction of a penny for each song played no matter how many listeners. Not anymore...now it's "Per Listener". For example, in 2007 iWebRadio.com for 60,000 Total Listener Hours would have been expected to pay the RIAA alone (this doesnt cover SESAC, BMI or ASCAP) $86,000 US dollars and the station had an income of less than $5,000.00 from donations and online commissions.

 

Grossly unfair? I think so! And because of this ruling, Artists are the ones NOT getting paid. The RIAA and Labels say the rates are fair. Yeah...and monkeys might fly outta my butt! And yet on top of these outrageous royalty fees they also expected us to institute some form of Anti-Ripping technology that insures no one can record the music. Considering they sued many P2P's out of business...the P2P industry is still booming! I am confident that eventually someone will see the light and institute a resonable and fair system. When, I have no clue. But if it means moving our broadcasts to Russia then so be it! Pirate Radio is becoming popular once more and thanks to the RIAA and CRB...it's expanding!

 

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Lets face it...there is no real way to prevent stream ripping. Sure you can setup some proprietary stream player, but anyone with a decent soundcard and recorder can rip the music as it's played! It's no different than recording a song off FM stereo directly to tape in a boombox. And I think we've all done that at some point! Unless we start putting something in over the music as it plays, like some kind of audio watermark that says something every 10 seconds. Listeners will leave in droves if we did that!

 

The biggest problem we as broadcasters face is the Gestapo tactics of the RIAA and the Labels. They represent a dinosaur of a business model they want to keep alive! And many similar organizations around the world are either following their lead or are pushed into it by the RIAA. Terrestrial AM/FM pays NO performace royalties, they pay a small royalty for the songwriters/producers. They consider the music they play to be a "service" to the artists as promotion! Yet, Satellite radio only pays 6% of revenues and Cable radio only pays 7.5% of revenues. Internet Radio is expected to pay for each song played and each listener who hears that song. Under the old CARP agreements we payed a fraction of a penny for each song played no matter how many listeners. Not anymore...now it's "Per Listener". For example, in 2007 iWebRadio.com for 60,000 Total Listener Hours would have been expected to pay the RIAA alone (this doesnt cover SESAC, BMI or ASCAP) $86,000 US dollars and the station had an income of less than $5,000.00 from donations and online commissions.

 

Grossly unfair? I think so! And because of this ruling, Artists are the ones NOT getting paid. The RIAA and Labels say the rates are fair. Yeah...and monkeys might fly outta my butt! And yet on top of these outrageous royalty fees they also expected us to institute some form of Anti-Ripping technology that insures no one can record the music. Considering they sued many P2P's out of business...the P2P industry is still booming! I am confident that eventually someone will see the light and institute a resonable and fair system. When, I have no clue. But if it means moving our broadcasts to Russia then so be it! Pirate Radio is becoming popular once more and thanks to the RIAA and CRB...it's expanding!

 

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well.. firstly you cannot get good recordings off FM. In Australia we have a buzz that goes over our radio that can only be heard over recordings. And i do it on my station, we play our intros just over our words so people dont get the full songs.

 

plus another.. :P compressors do alot for me, when you try record it its too bassy. ;)

 

The RIAA are grossly overcharging us and its getting very costly to me. i can only broadcast certain times according to ARIA :(

 

 

but good points there MADcHATTER

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well.. firstly you cannot get good recordings off FM. In Australia we have a buzz that goes over our radio that can only be heard over recordings. And i do it on my station, we play our intros just over our words so people dont get the full songs.

 

plus another.. :P compressors do alot for me, when you try record it its too bassy. ;)

 

The RIAA are grossly overcharging us and its getting very costly to me. i can only broadcast certain times according to ARIA :(

 

 

but good points there MADcHATTER

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There are a number of other things that can be done to thwart the stream ripper as well. I have a script that offsets the time interval that the ID3 tag is updated on my servers. It will randomly vary the time from five seconds to a minute. Those rippers that use the ID3 tag to separate the songs end up getting hosed.
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There are a number of other things that can be done to thwart the stream ripper as well. I have a script that offsets the time interval that the ID3 tag is updated on my servers. It will randomly vary the time from five seconds to a minute. Those rippers that use the ID3 tag to separate the songs end up getting hosed.
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