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Shifting from P2P to Stream Ripping

Thu, 22/04/2004 - 16:01 — Snurb
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As if the music industry didn't have enough to worry about: Slashdot [2] reports that users are now Shifting from P2P to Stream Ripping [3] - that is, using their computers to 'tape' online radio stations 24 hours a day. Quality is good (and getting better); song IDs enable sorting and selection of incoming songs - as broadband spreads and bandwidth increases, this virtually untraceable brute-force approach to downloading music might really become a viable alternative...

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