Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Ruckus introduces me to a new ethical dilemma

I wonder if my wife understands that when she takes naps, I toss Caleb onto Dave and watch the ensuing carnage. It usually lasts until Caleb is tired of pressing his older brother 6 inches into the carpet and starts crying for a bigger challenge. Or until Dave tried to make Caleb stand up and instead knocks him over leading to more crying which we can always pass off as "Caleb's hungry again!" It reminds me of when my younger brother and I would play football in our backyard wherein I would injure him and then make him swear not to tell mom and gee whiz isn't it fun to be driven into the ground and sat upon by your older brother who weighs 80 pounds more than you so stand and be a man.

So, if you purchase a song from somewhere and then record it using a streaming recorder, that's okay. If it's okay to record off the regular radio, then it should be okay to record off the internet radio. Is it okay to record music that you have legally downloaded from Ruckus but cannot burn onto a CD or put on your Ipod? See, I never know where the line is anymore. If I recorded my LaunchCast stream as if I was recording Q99 like I did back in the day, I think I would be okay with that. But there's something about recording music that I just downloaded, I guess because it's not in a radio format that raises a couple of yellow flags (not red flags, just yellow ones). However, I am equally unsure as to how long I am able to keep these songs from Ruckus. For example, if you get on Napster, you can download songs without purchasing them but the ewdmoment that you no longer are a subscriber, you cannot access these songs. With Ruckus, Icuir don't think these songs ever expire. So, they are my songs, on my harddrive that I legally acquired, so shouldn't I be able to record them? Thoughts on this are welcome

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Record on, Ruckus boy.

Anonymous said...

Record on, Ruckus boy.