NAB to RIAA: Mandatory Digital Encryption Could Threaten HD-R Rollout

[Jared Moya]

NAB wants to work with the record labels to figure out a compromise over content protection issues associated with HD Radio, rather than relying on Congress to mandate a solution. It opposes mandatory encryption of the digital signal at the source, however, and tells the RIAA that such a proposal could obsolete both IBOC receivers and transmission equipment now in use.

 

In a letter to RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch Bainwol, New NAB President/CEO David Rehr said the broadcast rollout is "well" underway and broadcasters have a lot invested in making the transition successful. "The goal for our industry is to find a resolution that balances protection of copyrighted works against the important objective of ensuring the continued and rapid expansion of digital audio broadcasts. Such a balanced approach could, in fact, aid the HD Radio rollout by removing regulatory and legislative uncertainty from the marketplace." NAB questions the degree to which HD Radio threatens copyright or will facilitate unauthorized, digital distribution of sound recordings, states Rehr.

 

"Those desiring to obtain and listen to pure, uninterrupted performances of sound recording in lieu of radio already have an abundant number of means to do so. Peer-to-peer file sharing and the hours of uninterrupted music that can be stored on CDs and discs are but a few such means. iPod uploads and digital music on the Internet would seem to present much larger and more immediate threats to copyright holders."

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[Theinfamousone]

That would be so ridiculous that I would laugh for the rest of my life.

[MorphineInduced]

well for them to say how there compramise would broaden the horizan is strait up bullshit, if congress would vote against the RIAA on this they would be no more in a hot minute......... this is pathetic and i to would laugh for the rest of my life .......

[teto]

And this is why copyrighted works cannot be protected, not with those techniques, not by those bastards. There is no compromise, NAB. Don't let them fool you with their money and power, the more you oppose them, the less power they will have. Undermine their efforts, don't "compromise." You're acting as if the RIAA were rational and truthful businesspeople. You commit a grave crime against yourself and us all, and you look horrible for having the gall to "compromise" with those monsters.

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*adjusts turban* ...what?