Labels don’t like digital radio
The entry of satellite and digital radio into the technological mainstream is increasing tension with the record industry, which wants new rules governing how consumers can make digital copies of songs from the airwaves.
At issue are new devices that can record and save high-quality digital copies of tunes as they’re being broadcast by these new networks. Recording executives are worried that consumers might increasingly opt to make such copies instead of purchasing the music on a commercial CD or from a download store like Apple Computer’s iTunes.
Read the comlplete article on ZDNet.com
I think the same thing goes for Podcasts. Podcasts are the way to get updated on new music (copyrigh or copyleft). Belgian Cisac, SABAM, released its paying scheme for podcasting yesterday. It doesn’t look that good for podcasting with prizes from 15€ to 75€ an hour or more. They even want to to add DRM to podcasts.I have no idea how they will do this and I don’t think they have an idea how to do this. 