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Creative's firmware "upgrade"
Epizenter celebrates
a new firmware release for the Creative Zen Vision:M player. "As
predicted by many of us, this firmware unfortunately removes your FM
recording capabilities. As far as I know, this is something that many
companies will have to remove from their players due to RIAA
regulations." You may not have known that the RIAA is able to
impose "regulations" on your hardware. All the more reason to buy a player
which can run Rockbox, which still
records from FM just fine.
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Creative's firmware "upgrade" Posted Oct 17, 2006 15:39 UTC (Tue) by miah (guest, #639) [Link] Well then support the Rockbox project, I'm sure its only a matter of time until somebody ports it over to the Creative Zen.
Creative's firmware "upgrade" Posted Oct 17, 2006 15:48 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] It's even more ridiculous than that. Who knew that RIAA 'regulations' banned stereos with cassette-tape recorders on them?
Oh, right, they don't. (Because they don't actually have the right to impose such 'regulations'. Praise be to cartels :/ )
Creative's firmware "upgrade" Posted Oct 17, 2006 19:52 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Cool rockbox features of the month:
- random auto-change directory, sort of like a shuffled playlist which
- pause on headphone removal. Sure, everyone else has this too but now
Rockbox rocks. :)
Creative's firmware "upgrade" Posted Oct 17, 2006 22:17 UTC (Tue) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link] I imagine the RIAA response would be that DAPs allow "perfect digital copies" while analog casettes show generational loss (and you already pay your RIAA tax when you buy blank casettes anyway).
I wonder if RIAA has some arrangement with the MP3 patent holder Thompson and that's how they're able to exert pressure on DAP manufacturers. It could also be DRM licensing leverage. That's all speculation on my part though.
Creative's firmware "upgrade" Posted Oct 18, 2006 18:26 UTC (Wed) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698) [Link] There isn't any RIAA tax on blank casettes (in the US). Only on blank DAT tapes. I'm sure that the RIAA would love to get a tax on blank cassettes, but it's not likely to happen.
Creative's firmware "upgrade" Posted Oct 19, 2006 2:18 UTC (Thu) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link] Ah, well, thanks for the correction.
Creative's firmware "upgrade" Posted Oct 17, 2006 18:09 UTC (Tue) by wilreichert (subscriber, #17680) [Link] So wait, are they gonna kick down my front door and bust me for all the dusty tapes I have in my closet? Awesome.
Creative's firmware "upgrade" Posted Oct 18, 2006 5:58 UTC (Wed) by pphaneuf (subscriber, #23480) [Link] So, I always forget, is the RIAA at the federal or at the state government level? Or is it actually part of the World Government?
Creative's firmware "upgrade" Posted Oct 18, 2006 8:11 UTC (Wed) by alonso (subscriber, #2828) [Link] the change is for the Zen microPhoto too, probably for all products.
Rockbox works great for me Posted Oct 18, 2006 11:31 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] Just to say that Rockbox is indeed great. I got an iriver h10 about a month ago and have been happily running Rockbox on it ever since.
I don't think FM radio is supported yet on the h10 port, it's the newest port available, but I'm not a radio listener anyway.
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