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I have a digital satellite radio broadcast recording, a webcast recording, or audio material taken from a digital TV broadcast. Is it allowed to seed this recording on DIME?

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I have a digital satellite radio broadcast recording, a webcast recording, or audio material taken from a digital TV broadcast. Is it allowed to seed this recording on DIME?

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First, of course, the torrent must be in compliance with DIME’s general policies for permitted torrents and not in violation of DIME’s list of prohibited bands and artists nor of DIME’s list of prohibited venues and events. From there our policies differ depending on whether the stream itself was lossy or lossless. CAUTION: Capturing a stream in a lossless filetype on your hard drive (for example, if you use Total Recorder) does not make the stream itself lossless. 10 ml of whiskey plus 740 ml of water in a 750-ml bottle are not the same as 750 ml of whiskey. The characteristics of the transmission determine lossiness, not those of the container that the capturing listener puts it into. Because of this, lossy webstreams recorded as .wav with Total Recorder (or any similar software) are NOT allowed, unless certain conditions are satisfied.