Re: [rumori] Record Industry Plays Both Sides (fwd)


From: Bob Boster (meridiesATdetritus.net)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2001 - 15:40:17 PST


On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, { brad brace } wrote:

> Bill Goldsmith, Web director of KPIG radio -- the very first radio station
> to simulcast on the Net -- was less restrained in his criticism. "I think
> the RIAA is a bunch of greedy, shortsighted idiots," he said.

Only because I was there, I need to correct this mis-statement. The first
radio station to simulcast was WXYC, the student station of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We managed to beat the KU station by a
couple weeks. More info on that historic moment at www.wxyc.org.

It's important to me because it was a hell of a lot of work, not to
mention the concern about the legal issues that forced us into a whole
boatload of legal research that was largely unprecedented.

(look: 2 posts in 1 day, maybe I can actually be a genuine participant)

Bob

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