- Oct 28, 1999
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I was reading a tech magazine for retail businesses and it was discussing advantages of DSL and Frame relays.
One thing that some businesses were doing was shoutcasting music into their stores to alleviate the need to pay for subscription based services that have for years been the alternative. I got to looking at our bills, and each of my 30+ stores is being charged somewhere between $35 and $55 a month for these music services. That doesn't include the hardware and install fees that you pay up front when the system is put in. Just some rough math shows that we are paying out roughly $14,500 a year just in music costs!
That could buy a WHOLE lot of CD's and storage space. I've already got a T1 line in the corporate office, and most of my stores have a DSL line coming in. If I buy all of the CD's, and then shoutcast them out to the stores, is there any legal rammifacations that I would be responsible for?
I've looked over the case, and cd's of about 10 different albums I have laying around here, and all of them talk about illegal duplication. Shoutcasting an Mp3 of a CD that I bought, to stores that *technically* (the money for the cd's comes from the stores) purchased would be legal wouldn't it?
It's a thin line to tread, but I'm serious about persuing it. All of my stores are already wired for it. All I need to do is run an RCA cable from the sound cards to the receivers in the offices. Hell, I could even put in a little unix box that worked as a stand alone winamp terminal.
Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?
One thing that some businesses were doing was shoutcasting music into their stores to alleviate the need to pay for subscription based services that have for years been the alternative. I got to looking at our bills, and each of my 30+ stores is being charged somewhere between $35 and $55 a month for these music services. That doesn't include the hardware and install fees that you pay up front when the system is put in. Just some rough math shows that we are paying out roughly $14,500 a year just in music costs!
That could buy a WHOLE lot of CD's and storage space. I've already got a T1 line in the corporate office, and most of my stores have a DSL line coming in. If I buy all of the CD's, and then shoutcast them out to the stores, is there any legal rammifacations that I would be responsible for?
I've looked over the case, and cd's of about 10 different albums I have laying around here, and all of them talk about illegal duplication. Shoutcasting an Mp3 of a CD that I bought, to stores that *technically* (the money for the cd's comes from the stores) purchased would be legal wouldn't it?
It's a thin line to tread, but I'm serious about persuing it. All of my stores are already wired for it. All I need to do is run an RCA cable from the sound cards to the receivers in the offices. Hell, I could even put in a little unix box that worked as a stand alone winamp terminal.
Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?
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