Re: [IRCA] Roadcasting - can it grab some of radio station audiences?

[Harry White N1QVE <harry@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Friends,
How is this different from microbroadcasting, deemed illegal by the FCC?
Thanks
Harry
N1QVE


Bill Harms wrote:

> Radio Friends:
> 
> This is a way to broadcast without a license.  Will it take off?
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> http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0508/18/0tech-281644.htm
> 
> New 'roadcasting' concept allows music sharing in and between cars
> 
> By Timothy McNulty / Scripps Howard News Service / Pittsburgh Post-
> Gazette
> 
> Just as commuters are catching up to the idea of satellite radio for 
> their cars, former graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University 
> have developed a next-generation radio concept that allows users to 
> tune into music from iPods and other digital music players in nearby 
> cars.
> 
> The idea, which the students developed for an unidentified "major 
> automaker" last year, is called Roadcasting. Using it, you could tune 
> your radio to music playlists coming from other cars within a 30-mile 
> radius. Or you could transmit your own list of songs for people in 
> other nearby cars to listen to.
> 
> Perhaps best of all, the Roadcasting software would learn what songs 
> or musical genres you like. Using those preferences, it would sift 
> through all the broadcasts available at any one time and choose the 
> ones you should like best. Every time you turn on the Roadcasting 
> apparatus, it would find an ad hoc radio station -- or create a mix 
> of songs -- with your tastes in mind.
> 
> That kind of matching -- called "filtering" -- is what makes the idea 
> special, and ties it to an important trend in how people are 
> experiencing technology and culture.
> 
> Like the recommendation filters for Netflix or Amazon.com, which 
> suggest products to you based on your past orders, the Roadcasting 
> software would propose songs.
> 
> Additionally, concepts like Roadcasting are a logical next step for 
> music playlists, which users already share all over the Web, 
> including at Apple's popular iTunes site. The system, then, is 
> something that unites people, contrary to the traditional image of 
> technology being a cold or heartless thing.
> 
> "The Roadcasting system brings together people with common interests -
> - both musical and otherwise -- as the system also learns what radio 
> personalities, commentators and podcasts drivers like," said one of 
> its developers, Jim Garretson.
> 
> Garretson and four other graduate students at Carnegie Mellon's Human-
> Computer Interaction Institute were commissioned to develop the 
> system last year for the research and development arm of an as-yet-
> unnamed automaker, with the hopes of introducing it to cars by 2010. 
> 
> <see URL above for rest of article>
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