Sunday, May 29, 2005
Lawyers, others question radio TIVO-like devices - Yahoo! News
Lawyers, others question radio TIVO-like devices
I had personally pondered developing PC-based audio recorders years ago; just another project that got put on a shelf.
My own comments posted to the Yahoo! Board in response to this lame waste of time and energy:
So what else is new? People have been recording movies on TV for years since VCRs first came along. And I still remember the fuss about how it was going to erode the market for movies and shows to the point of collapsing the marketplace. Or so the damn lawyers said. Instead, we're now seeing an incredible boom in the sale of DVDs (both sales AND rentals) of movies and -- God forbid! -- entire season collections of TV shows (who would have guessed?)! $79.95 for one season of Seinfeld?!!
To all you entertainment lawyers out there kicking up a fuss so you b*stards can carve out another ounce (or pound) of flesh: F*CK OFF! Leave the marketplace alone and it'll pretty much take care of itself. Radio is already drastically changing with the incredible number of podcasts hitting the Internet every single day. Broadcasters need to be more worried about how to produce better content that people will actually listen to rather than trying to protect the poor excuse for miserable content that they've been force-feeding all of us for years. Get over it. And take your damn lawyers with you!
I had personally pondered developing PC-based audio recorders years ago; just another project that got put on a shelf.
My own comments posted to the Yahoo! Board in response to this lame waste of time and energy:
So what else is new? People have been recording movies on TV for years since VCRs first came along. And I still remember the fuss about how it was going to erode the market for movies and shows to the point of collapsing the marketplace. Or so the damn lawyers said. Instead, we're now seeing an incredible boom in the sale of DVDs (both sales AND rentals) of movies and -- God forbid! -- entire season collections of TV shows (who would have guessed?)! $79.95 for one season of Seinfeld?!!
To all you entertainment lawyers out there kicking up a fuss so you b*stards can carve out another ounce (or pound) of flesh: F*CK OFF! Leave the marketplace alone and it'll pretty much take care of itself. Radio is already drastically changing with the incredible number of podcasts hitting the Internet every single day. Broadcasters need to be more worried about how to produce better content that people will actually listen to rather than trying to protect the poor excuse for miserable content that they've been force-feeding all of us for years. Get over it. And take your damn lawyers with you!
