[ChadGore]

You've tried this . . can I ask you something ?

1) What if I take the Rush Limbaugh Internet feed and rip every segment into it's own MP3, making sure to skip the commercials, turn around a Podcast each segment as it's finished, I could have a show that's only time shifted 10-20 mins and available for all.

2) What if I just play back all the MP3s on my hard drive ?

In both situations, am I not inviting a lawsuit for distribution of copyrighted goods ?

[olde north church]

This is an excellent opportunity to bring the whole P2P thing into an forest vs tree situation. Several years ago, Rush came out against the napster concept, calling it stealing or something for nothing mindset.
He was concurrently extolling the virtues of tiVoing. How he was able to tiVo the football games and watch them without the commercials. I'm sure many of us have tried to contact Rush and chat regarding whatever issue on the table.
I tried to call and "debate" with him about the philosophy of P2P vs tiVo. How could he be against P2P yet support tiVo. Those football games are brought to the public by the dollars of the advertisers. To watch an event without watching the commercials is just as much stealing as filesharing. You're trying to get something for nothing.
Rationalize as much as you want, they are the same thing.
//stepping down from soapbox//

[Dont Mention the War]

In both situations, am I not inviting a lawsuit for distribution of copyrighted goods ?

In the first situation, you would be, in theory. In reality, however, they'd probably never notice (or care, if they did notice) unless you started getting hundreds of thousands of downloads per day. But even then, all they'd do is send you a cease-and-desist letter. As long as you complied with that letter, they wouldn't waste the cash on a lawsuit.

In the second situation, however, it's perfectly legal. As long as the files are for your own personal use, you can play them back however you like. It's no different from buying one of those modified cassette decks that people use to record entire three-hour shows on one side of a tape, and they used to be a Rush advertiser. (Of course, there's also no way for them to even tell you saved the Internet stream to your hard drive in the first place.)