Suit filed over recording device

[gwinnettpost]

The world's major record companies on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against satellite provider XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., alleging its new Inno portable device which can store music infringes on their copyrights.http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=musicNews&storyID=2006-05-16T230440Z_01_N16105632_RTRIDST_0_MUSIC-MEDIA-XM-DC.XML&archived=False

 

[sdh483]

If you subscribed to XM's e-mail list, you probably got this in regards to this bullcorn suit:http://links.email.xmradio.com/servlet/MailView?ms=NTI0NTYzS0&r=MzA4ODMxOTA5MwS2&j=MTU4OTIzMzMS1&mt=1they seem pretty optimistic in keeping this from happening. After all, they do make some good points in the disclaimer.

 

[jesusjuice]

They are trying to act like they are making songs available to download. The thing only stores fifty hours and its not like you can connect it to you computer and upload the songs to keep forever, it gives you the option to buy them as mp3s. The thing is just like a smaller myfi with more memorey and the ability to put your own mps's on it. These people dont know what theyre talking about.

 

[tankedsecondchance]

heres a update

XM Must Defend Copyright Suit by Recording Industry (Update3)

By David Glovin

Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- XM Satellite Radio Inc., the biggest U.S. provider of pay-radio service, must defend a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by record labels owned by Sony BMG Music Entertainment, EMI Group Plc and others, a judge ruled.

The suit by the 10 labels is over an XM service called XM+MP3 that allows users to download permanent libraries of songs. Because subscribers of Washington-based XM are able to store these songs, the record labels say, consumers will have ``little need ever again'' to purchase the songs from them.

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