The new radio

The Internet Streaming Receiver is real and it’s here. Add to that the new Yahoo! Music service
that let’s you stream all the music you want from a selection one
million songs for $4.99 a month.  The only piece that is left is
the ubiquitous Wi-Fi.

Once you have high speed broadband “everywhere”, I think devices like
the Torian InFusion and other portable devices that didn’t make sense
without high speed Internet access, will really take off.  The
same thing will happen for applications and services too.  Imagine
if the music services were more like the old Napster where you could
find all kinds of old music that is part of the catalog of the big
music companies that they can’t or won’t provide for copyright or
business reasons.  This is the long tail again

My dream is a time when you can take your portable Internet Streaming
Receiver and listen to anything that has ever been recorded, anywhere,
whenever you want.  The first step is devices like the Torian
InFusion.  The next step is wireless broadband everywhere, or at least everywhere where I live.

The last part may be the most difficult.  Under the current
copyright law there are many works in the back catalog of the record
companies that they “can’t” release because they are unable to find the copyright holders.  At least that is one of the arguments I’ve heard brought out by the record companies.

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