[BC] Broadcast Flag Lowered

[Ron Castro]

You might be surprised, Rich, but I agree with you on this one (call the 
press!).  The movie and record industries have turned into near monopolies, 
with something like 90% of each media controlled by 3 or 4 companies, a 
couple of whom have substantial control of both.  People think Clear Channel 
is a monopoly in our industry, but it's nothing compared to this.

As a conservative, I believe in free enterprise and competition, but there 
has to be some controlling factor for when a market place gets tied up by 
too few players who can keep any effective competition at bay.  Tivo's, 
downloading, etc. is simply the market reacting to an unfair market place.

Ron Castro
Chief Technical Officer
Results Radio, LLC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Wood" <richwood at pobox.com>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Broadcast Flag Lowered


> ------ At 12:02 PM 5/6/2005, DANA PUOPOLO wrote: -------
>
>>No biggie. All it means is that they have to bribe er - 'convince' 
>>Congress to
>>create designer legislation mandating this.
>>After all, it benefits everyone - right?
>>
>>Just ask Ron, he'll tell you...
>
> I think the financial incentives just didn't work this time. After all, 
> copyright law allows us to make a copy for our personal use. I realize Ron 
> will consider us Commie Pinko Liberals for wanting to do such a thing, but 
> I have a Tivo and time-shift often. I'd do it even if the Tivo were 
> digital.
>
> I don't like theft of intellectual property or hackers who create 
> destructive software, but they're becoming more and more necessary as 
> companies prevent us from doing things the law says we can. In the days of 
> vinyl I knew many people who would make tape copies of new records and 
> store the record to prevent damage. I'm sure it would have taken some 13 
> year old a day or two to break the code and render the whole protection 
> scheme obsolete, except for honest people who wouldn't think of 
> distributing copies. I think there are a few of us left.
>
> As I said on another list, you can never be sure a cherry-picked right 
> wing judge can be relied on to do your bidding.
>
> Rich
>
> Rich Wood
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