[vorbis] Streaming Considerations.

[Jack Moffitt]

it should be mentioned that saving streams is perfectly legal and granted
as fair use under copyright law.  it's your right to make time/space
shifted copies no matter what the riaa says.

enforcing of copyright should be left int he courts and not put in
software.

jack.

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, David Balazic wrote:

> Adam Scriven wrote :
> 
> >I'm more thinking about Real Audio streams. The provided software does not
> >allow saving. Yes, it's possible to sniff the sound card port, and do it
> >that way, but the RIAA doesn't seem to care about the, what 10% of people
> >who know how to do that.
> >If it became easy, if you could download MicroSoft SoundCard Sniffer, I
> >could see it being a problem, but since you can't, unless I've made an
> >incorrect fundamental assumption, I would say that that's good enough.
> 
> Virtual Audio Cable - www.ntonyx.com/vac.html
> TotalRecorder - www.totalrecorder.com
> /proc/asound/dev/pcm00loopback on Linux/ALSA
> 
> Anyway this is a concern for the player application and not
> for the codec or the format ( ok , could add tons of encryption
> and other crap to the format, but then nobody would use it,
> I know I won't ).
> 
> Player apps are not exactly the focus of Monty or XIPH,Co.
> They are done by external entities , like Winamp, XMMS etc...
> 
> David Balazic
> 
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