Saturday, January 20, 2007

Your Music in Your Time?

How do you listen to your music in your life? You get a recording of it and play it when you're ready. Right?

The latest volley in the debate that's raged ever since consumers got access to recording technology seeks to limit your ability to "time-shift" -- that is, play your music when you want to hear it. This time the question is whether it's okay to record satellite radio onto a special MP3 player that lets you listen to it later. Listening Post places this development in context, which might calm you or make you crazy, depending on your view of the unstable state of digital copyright.

While we wait for the litigants to duke it out, I just love the time-shifted music available by podcast at KCRW's Today's Top Tune.

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