History and Senator Stevens' iPod

Electronic Frontier Foundation ^ | January 25, 2006

[Keith in Iowa]

iPod ping

[martin_fierro]

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[freepatriot32]

Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here

[tubebender]

Good one!!!

[cgbg]

I saw that hearing on CSPAN.

Sununu was fantastic!

It is rare these days when I want to give a Republican politician a standing ovation but Sununu really gets it.

Keep the stupid government regulators out of our face.

The American flag is the only flag needed, thank you.

[ndt]

The greatest danger has passed I believe (hope).

When a new technology emerges, is easy to make it sound dangerous and destructive. Now however, MP3 players have become the de facto standard in portable music. They are so common , that even some of the more decrepit members of the legislative body know what it is and what it does. The RIAA will not find it so easy to mask it under an aura shadowy danger.

[adamsjas]

With that simple question, the octogenarian Senator encapsulated arguments about place-shifting, interoperability, and fair use that would have taken whole federal dockets to explain a few years ago.

As much bad press as he gets, this is a typical Stevens setup. I'd wager the whole thing was planned, and the "we gotta pass this" attitude was for show, but he knew all along there would be objections, and he had no intention of voting for it.

The fact that an 80 year old knows what an Ipod is good for is telling of his savy. And being from alaska he's seen enough corporate rape jobs to know what the record industry is after.

I'm hopeing this goes no where. They are OUR airwaves, and if you don't want us recording it, then keep your gutter trash music off our air.

[Wilhelm Tell]

That is great! That really unmasked the greed behind all the hysteria. If some people had their way, all books would disintegrate after being read the first time! If you wanted to read a book a second time, you would have to buy a second copy. If you bought a reference book, you would have to pay a "maintenance fee" every time you used it or the book would disappear!

[Swordmaker]

Do we really need this law... PING!

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[MaryFromMichigan]

A little off topic, but I was just searching for Old Time Radio pod casts for my iPod and it just occurred to me to go to the Mac/iPod freeper experts!
Can you give me any ideas where to go?

[martin_fierro]

Howzabout:

http://www.podcast.net/ (search for "oldtime")

http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/podcasts/categories/radio

http://www.podcastalley.com/search.php?searchterm=vintage

[MaryFromMichigan]

Thank you so much!!!!

[martin_fierro]

Plus I have some of my old grad school radio jazz shows from the late 80s available in MP3 format. Vintage enough?

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[MaryFromMichigan]

Plus I have some of my old grad school radio jazz shows from the late 80s available in MP3 format. Vintage enough?

The 80s... as vintage?
Just how old are you? Lol!

[mhx]

1880's?

[MaryFromMichigan]

1880's jazz?

[operation clinton cleanup]

Of course, under the RIAA's proposed controls, you may not: this is "disaggregation" in their language.

Cmon' now they are just making stuff up! That can't be a real word.