HD Radio Content Protection Act aims to limit digital radio recording

We knew the RIAA wasn't too happy about peeps recording music off of their satellite radios, and now they're playing the mommy Congress card with the HD Radio Content Protection Act of 2005. It would require device makers to implement "functionality" to automatically delete your recordings after a certain amount of time, just like back in the good old days. Don't you remember? When they'd come over to your house and erase your cassettes after a week or two, even though you'd recorded them from FM radio for non-commercial use and were protected by the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992? Yeah, us neither. The law would also restrict time shifting capabilities, in an effort to allow you to record what you're listening to, but to stop you from pulling songs automatically from a schedule for later perusal. Lucky for us, the Consumer Electronics Association is fighting back; saying that the RIAA is limiting innovation, which is a nice gesture seeing how, for the most part, consumer electronics manufacturers usually seem to fall all over themselves trying to offer up new and more restrictive DRM schemes.

[Via Techdirt]

[Jeff @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Pretty soon it's going to be just plain illegal to listen to music. Then the RIAA will have won.

Do they even realize what they're doing? They're so self-destructive that I really wonder sometimes who they actually represent. Is this all just some big scam? Some sort of giant pump and dump scheme or something? I mean, who is really benefiting by making people less interested in music? Somebody must be. It ain't the artists or consumers, that's for sure.

[President Al Gore @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

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[Peter @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Why doesn't the RIAA just cut off everyones ears and be done with it?

Actually, then they would probably make it illegal to even _think_ about music.

[Homescoop @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Now you know why most of the stuff on my ipod is talk radio and podcasts. Enough of this garbage. Forget stealing music...I don't even want it anymore period...free or not. Not worth my time. Most of the music I love was made in the 80s. There are very few current songs I can't live w/o. So I will.

We will have to go back to a analog real time method. One,they can't make cd's that wont play in a standard $20 walmart cd player. Two,we all have or can get cables that run from a headphone jack to a line in. And three,they can't stop your current sound recorder from recording whatever is coming from your soundcard. The RIAA will pretty much send us and technology back 10 years.

All of these wonderfull gadgets and programs will be rendered useless. The RIAA wil lbe taking a lot of money out of the hands of the companies that make these products.

By the way. If you buy a SONY cd and want to transfer it to your SONY BEAN or SONY MINIDISC....how can you w/ the rootkit? Nice job Sony. Nice. Yep,you guys are too smart for us.

[Walt @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Get your TimeTrax while ye may...

[R @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

The Gestapo and KGB would be proud of these guys. In the interests of big entertainment/hollywood which is losing paying customers hand over foot, they continue to disregard legal copying. I agree back to analog recording and they can shove it up their combines colons

[HardwareGuy @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

How does RIAA get their proposals sponsored in congress? Do they have some congressmen on payroll or are they able to convince them it's a good idea?

[Brian Young @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Why is the RIAA even allowed to dump all this into Congress. I mean, if I wanted a pants bill, that would restrict people from wearing any pants, I couldn't just get Congress to vote on it. Who the hell is allowing all of these bills?

THE RIAA ISN'T PART OF OUR GOVERNMENT -- IT CAN'T JUST KEEP INTRODUCING THESE ACTS.

[Rusty Hodge @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Why is the RIAA even allowed to dump all this into Congress? Because they can afford to. If you have enough money, you'd be surprised at what you can get through congress.

So why don't YOU get on the phone to your congressman and complain about what the RIAA is doing? Complaining here isn't going to change things.

[Bible and Apologetics Teacher @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

This sounds a lot like the copy protection built into DVD players (and the DCMA) that prevents some piracy but also makes it difficult for fair-use copying of material.

[tpp @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

#7, check the campaign donations to the congresscritters, who keep on introducing these bills. It's no secret these stooges are completely bought by the RIAA.

[Dooggy @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

I believe that the RIAA would like us to pay by the note each and every time we hear one. I say go back to live music -- play it yourself and ditch recordings altogether.

BTW why does a movie that costs $100,000 to make cost as much as a Britney Spears CD? My guess is that the movie-watching folks have refused to pay higher prices -- I remember the first Starwars video costing $100US. That was a nice try. I believe that the DVD industry now is where most of the revenues come from for marginal films (like most of what is being produced).

I buy my music online and never select RIAA artists. Who wins there?

[Terry @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

You guys got it all wrong. You can listen to the songs as many times as you want. The only stipulation is you have to get brain washed after listening to each song. You don't have the rights to have the tune in your head, one the song has finished playing.