On 22 Mar 2005 18:51:00 GMT, Tom Betz wrote:

And very shortly after he took over at Sirius, the few free web streams
that Sirius talent had negotiated for their hard-core fans were
unceremoniously turned off.

You know, it's no secret Mel is no fan of streaming...but I don't
really blame him in that case.

At Infinity, his strict "no streaming" policy increasingly meant that
the company seemed to be walling itself off from the growing world of
digital audio.

But at Sirius, his company is now PART of that world, and I can't
blame him for cutting off free feeds of exclusive talent, that you
can't hear anywhere else. I do believe they should stream those folks
to subscribers via their in-house streaming that already exists for
music stations on Sirius.

Mike Ward wrote in news:d1s93d$7p$1
@xuxa.iecc.com:

But at Sirius, his company is now PART of that world, and I can't
blame him for cutting off free feeds of exclusive talent, that you
can't hear anywhere else.

Nor could I, if Sirius were to offer a web-only subscription option for
those of us for whom the available Sirius hardware remains unacceptably
inflexible.

Unfortunately, the only way to subscribe to the web stream is first to
purchase Sirius hardware, because you need the hardware's serial number.

And as a matter of principle, I'm not about to buy any hardware that
isn't at least as portable as a 1980 Sony Walkman.

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