RIAA and NAB want FM Radio in cellphones and other mobile devices

[BlackLantern]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...ory-fm-radio-in-cell-phones-is-the-future.ars

Music labels and radio broadcasters can't agree on much, including whether radio should be forced to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars a year to pay for the music it plays. But the two sides can agree on this: Congress should mandate that FM radio receivers be built into cell phones, PDAs, and other portable electronics.

The Consumer Electronics Association, whose members build the devices that would be affected by such a directive, is incandescent with rage. "The backroom scheme of the [National Association of Broadcasters] and RIAA to have Congress mandate broadcast radios in portable devices, including mobile phones, is the height of absurdity," thundered CEA president Gary Shapiro. Such a move is "not in our national interest."
"Rather than adapt to the digital marketplace, NAB and RIAA act like buggy-whip industries that refuse to innovate and seek to impose penalties on those that do."

But the music and radio industries say it's a consumer-focused proposition, one that would provide "more music choices."

 

[amazingfantasy15]

This is not something the government needs to be involved in, it should in no way be a law that portable music devices or cell phones have radios in them. My iPod does have a radio and it's nice sometimes, but Apple definitely shouldn't have been forced to include it.

 

[Lighthouse]

This would be hilarious if it weren't so pathetic.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Good lord. These old people are going to go screaming like little b**ch's aren't they.

Also I am getting sick & tired of the government getting involved in all this BS. The steroid situtation was rediculous & so is this! How about dealing with these corrupt companies!