Disklavier

Good morning, everyone.

Wanda, your DU1A is upgradeable with a DKC-850, which means that the DKC-850 can replace your current control unit completely, thus providing access to DisklavierRadio and DisklavierTV.

Obviously, there is a piracy concern behind the design of DisklavierRadio and DisklavierTV, and it is not possible to capture the MIDI data streams.

I did not design DisklavierRadio nor DisklavierTV, so I cannot comment on the exact thinking behind the design except to point out that there are many different constituencies that have to be pleased in order for either system to be viable:

—Yamaha
—the performing artists
—the owners of music copyrights (i.e. mechanical rights and public performance rights)
—consumers

Intellectual property law and the opinions of the individual constituents makes these issues complicated. If the data streams can be captured, for example, performing artists may demand higher fees or refuse to participate in broadcasts.

NOTE: I used the word “may.” It’s all conjecture. We’re obviously living in a fast-changing era in which everyone is trying to figure out a viable way to make new technologies work for everyone.

Regards,
PianoBench


> On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:14 AM, wandamusic@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I do not have streaming radio on my DU1A, but follow with interest the conversations.
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> I am just curious, my assumption must be wrong based on the limits Yamaha puts on the streaming audio.
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> But say you had disklavier radio on your piano. Would you not be able to set MIDI thru or OUT in such a way as to "capture" what is coming IN to the piano? 
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> That data stream is SOMEwhere.
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> My thoughts are if it is already possible to "intercept it", yet it is not intercepted and pirated and a problem, perhaps there might be a chance of influencing someone to allow an update for older diskalviers to get the service.
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> And if this potential interception is why they do not release some update.... then we just need some disklavier nerds to figure out a way that it can be retrofitted while not allowing theft, like the encryption mentioned. Maybe some sort of hardwired, rather than software type encryption (if that is possible).
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> Blessings,
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> Wanda
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