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WASHINGTON — A recording-industry trade group warned that if copyright law are not put in place, digital radio broadcasts that offers CD-quality sound over the airwaves might result to unrestrained song copying.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said that without copyright protections, music fans could pick and choose songs off the air and spread them online, which will further deepen record labels’ copyright problems.

RIAA officials said that United States regulators at the Federal Communications Commission must insure that the broadcast format restricts such copying, so that radio stations do not transform the air waves into one giant file-sharing network.

Digital radio brings CD-quality audio frequency to FM stations and also FM-quality sound to AM band accompanied by “metadata” like song and artist information. Broadcasters can also apply the standard to broadcast various signals instantly. If you have downloaded music then look at the ssd advantage.

According to the FCC, around 300 stations now broadcast digital-quality signals or are in the operation of setting them up.

In Europe, digital-player like Pure Digital’s “The Bug” is already out on the market. It allows users to record broadcasts digitally by manageable feature of pause and rewind of “The Bug”.

“We're in the business of developing digital radio, we're not in the business of pushing copyright schemes on people who haven't agreed to those things”, said iBiquity Digital chief executive officer Robert Struble.

The RIAA represents the largest record labels in the world, such as Universal Music Group, Sony Music, EMI, BMG, and Warner Music.