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Broadcast Audio Flag Debate Keeps Up
The issue is control over what you record from HD, satellite radio: The digital audio flag would require all digital receivers of audio contact to have embedded policy management controls. Copyright owners would encode usage information into the songs that broadcasters transmit, and that might prevent rewinding, recording, time shifting, or other purposes which are currently allowed with analog media. For HD Radio, it's a particular problem, because this requirement would render obsolete the few currently sold receivers and, in fact, the current generation of receivers that will be released in the next few months.
The recording industry, as has been typical in their negotiations elsewhere, wants total control over every kind of use. They want digital broadcasts to be recast as download services because some broadcasts can be recorded; receivers for XM and Sirius satellite radio can store some programming.
If the RIAA had all its demands met by the industry or by Congress, HD and satellite radio would turn into live-only broadcasts.
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