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October 5, 2011 10:57 pm GMT
Michael Robertson is no stranger to legal threats from the music industry. The founder of MP3.com fought a landmark case against Universal Music Group in the 1990s over digital music copyrights, which MP3.com ultimately lost. He was taken to court again by the music labels a couple years ago as the CEO of MP3Tunes, and now he is raising the ire of the radio industry with his latest startup, DAR.fm. He just received a cease and desist letter from Univision (embedded below) for making it possible to record 26 of its radio stations.Dar.fm, which stands for Digital Audio Recorder), allows consumers to record Internet radio streams and listen to them later. "It's a TiVo for radio," argues Robertson. There are 16,000 radio shows from 5,000 different AM and FM radio stations listed on DAR.fmeverything from NPR's Fresh Air to Rush Limbaugh. Users can find radio shows on DAR.fm and record them for later playback.
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Michael Robertson Gets A Cease & Desist From Univision For DAR.fm, His "TiVo For Radio
Michael Robertson is no stranger to legal threats from the music industry. The founder of MP3.com fought a landmark case against Universal Music Group in the 1990s over digital music copyrights, which MP3.com ultimately lost. He was taken to court again by the music labels a couple years ago as the CEO of MP3Tunes, and now he is raising the ire of the radio industry with his latest startup, DAR.fm. He just received a cease and desist letter from Univision (embedded below) for making it possible to record 26 of its radio stations.Dar.fm, which stands for Digital Audio Recorder), allows consumers to record Internet radio streams and listen to them later. "It's a TiVo for radio," argues Robertson. There are 16,000 radio shows from 5,000 different AM and FM radio stations listed on DAR.fmeverything from NPR's Fresh Air to Rush Limbaugh. Users can find radio shows on DAR.fm and record them for later playback.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/OGgXZOnWjG4/
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