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Should Pirate Radio Be Made Legal (DJ Related)

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  • March 27, 2016 at 4:23 am #2375311
    Alex Moschopoulos
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    I could understand the push for pirate radio in the old days…but with the internet now you can have an unlimited amount of “radio stations” and never interfere with anything.

    So my curiosity…why still push for FM transmission?

    Now I don’t know how airwaves are regulated in the UK, but in the US supposedly they are “publicly owned”. One idea would be to take the low band and designate it for amateur radio.

    One other factor though is on copyrighted material. So you’re playing music, and then when you sell ads of any sort you need to pay the appropriate channels the royalties for using the music to make money.

    March 28, 2016 at 4:57 am #2375521
    Todd Oddity
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    Hold on. What is this FM radio thing you speak of? 😉

    But seriously, I think you may have had an argument 30 years ago, but not now. Personally, I don’t have a radio in my home anymore, so the only place I could listen would be in my car, which I don’t as I have a subscription to Sirius BMP, or I just plug in my phone and listen to music off that. I might flip over to a traffic report on the news station if I happen to be driving at rush hour, and really, that’s it for radio. More people are moving in my direction away from radio, not towards it. Why put up with advertising and cheesy morning show jocks if you don’t have to?

    I can however play an internet station on my laptop, on my television, on my tablet, on my phone (which I can connect to my car)… You get the idea. And all of these things can be anywhere I am. With high-cap data plans and public wifi spots everywhere, I see no reason to think that internet radio is not the direction things are going and that FM is rapidly dying. Plus from a broadcaster perspective, the startup costs are way lower, and it can even be done in a completely legal way so no risk of getting shut down.

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