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with the age of online will pirates be round permanently

  • 06-09-2014 10:43pm
    #1
    castle2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭


    Just a question ?. Looking at most good pirates now there broadcasting online, I think even if there shut down on Fm, They have a very good chance of surviving online. .
    Radio is now changing maybe we'll be streaming radio in our cars in a few years with 3g/4g etc.
    This will be a big challenge for the legal ones.


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  • #2
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    I already stream radio in my car - using TuneIn Radio and my Aux input.


  • #3
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    Usage limits is pretty much halting 3G/4G streaming. I listened to online radio for about 8 hours and used near 800MB.


  • #4
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,381 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    pirate radio will be around for a good while yet. there won't be as many probably as the years go on but that will not be down to raids which have no chance of destroying it for good, but it will be down to changes in the consumption of music and listening including different listening portals such as streaming (mass streaming may be viable in the future)

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • #5
    colossus-x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    TallGlass wrote: »
    Usage limits is pretty much halting 3G/4G streaming. I listened to online radio for about 8 hours and used near 800MB.

    It's not too bad for a whopping 8 hours of listening IMO.


  • #6
    former legend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,309 ✭✭✭former legend


    As streaming becomes more widely used, how will people even discover pirate stations any more? i.e. if you currently stumble across radion stations while scanning up and down the dial, that doesn't happen with TuneIn or whatever.

    Also, since you can now access thousands of stations playing pretty much every type of music imaginable, will there even be any demand for pirates?

    So no, I'd say the age of online will be the death of pirates.


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  • #7
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    colossus-x wrote: »
    It's not too bad for a whopping 8 hours of listening IMO.

    Well considering if you have a limit of 5GB which most do then in about 5 days you'll have nearly reached that limit and then add in other applications.


  • #8
    Lionpaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Lionpaw


    Pirate stations play music that mainstream radio stations don't play , so for example rinse fm in London started as a 'pirate' they were the first one to get a licence in the uk but continued to broadcast in a pirate format to this day.They too stream online but fm is their main medium ,even years from now some people will not have access to decent 3G /4g services let alone smart devices and for the pirates it's as much about the technical and processing side of things that keeps things interesting .....


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