At 08:27 23/03/2001, Chris Rigby wrote:
I've often wonder what would happen if someone put up a "tunable" web radio station that digitized the station that some web peruser decided to tune in. You could argue that it was not "you" that decided to stream any one particular station or piece of music. But then I remember that it's not nice to confuse poor helpless animals such as lawyers, judges and juries.
Something of this nature already exists in New Zealand. A couple of normal broadcast radio station take their broadcasts and encode them for internet broadcast. The question is... do they need these additional liscenses or are they ok with the ones they have... do they suddenly break the law by re-broadcasting over the internet?
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