Okay I wanna get a folder put my favorite music in it and have it so that people can connect to my ip via WMP and listen how does one do this? Or does it take up too much bandwith?
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
You're asking for trouble if you share copyrighted material in this way. You could be slapped with a very hefty lawsuit, at least here in the US. (I don't know how this will differ in Canada).
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Oh it differs, like they're are SOME laws but they're never enforced to speak of. Like I know in one college there's a club that watched movies, and this is a group with 15+ people. But the school technically frowns on it but turns a blind eye in practice.
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
Not really the same thing. Noncommercial viewing by smallish groups has almost never been an issue for the copyright owners. Internet sharing, on the other hand, is much more heavily enforced.
I'm not exactly sure what the rules are, but I know that some use of copyrighted music is allowed when doing internet radio. For example, I heard somewhere that you can only play the same artist twice in a two hour period, but this is a US rule, so I'm not sure what they would be for you.
I don't really know anything about what sort of software is needed, but I do know that sharing copyrighted songs over a broadcast is not necessarily a problem. Just make sure that you check the rules before starting this up.
As far as bandwidth goes, I honestly have no idea. However, I would imagine that it could get very high if you transmitted with any kind of quality.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Blayne: I suspect that college, like most colleges, has a site license from all the major movie copyright licensors that allows such viewing.
If you're doing internet radio, its perfectly legal to use most music . . . if you pay certain compulsory licensing fees. If that's the avenue you want to go, just let me know.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
ahem.... the club was watching anime, not even personally bought anime, anime either A) bootlegged off the net or B) gotten from Chinatown hehe.
Aside from that *bump* I know TomDavison would know what to do.
*sings "what would Brian O'Conor do"*
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Then it probably wasn't actually legal, Blayne.
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While what you're wanting to do is technically very easy, I should warn you that it's against the law in several countries -- including your own -- and could result in enormous fines unless you actually pursued obtaining the appropriate licensing. That licensing, however, is not inexpensive.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Actually the music I wish to broadcast should be copyrighted considering that the country in question nolonger exists namely *cough* the Soviet Union */cough* and the music itself made before I think anyone of us were born.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
If you can verify that -- that it's no longer copyrighted anywhere, NOT that it's just old and Soviet -- let me know and I'll recommend a few options. Are you planning to use your home computer as your server?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
possibly my home computer, I wanna check how much of my bandwith it'll probly soak up first just to see if it works, for practice since I'm taking computer science, I'll ask my Hoi2 friend who has all my Russian music availiable on his website for free I think he'll know.
Also, he doesnt disregard copyright, I know he took the theme for "A Bridge Too Far" off when he found its copyright holder.