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XM Radio Faces Challenge from Record Labels
By: Priyanka Pradhan   |   May 18, 2006
XM Radio has been accused of “massive wholesale infringement of copyright sound recordings” belonging to music labels. The lawsuit was filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)which seeks to stop all of XM's broadcast operations along with a fine of US$150,000 for damages. The association includes Warner Music Group, Sony BMG, EMI, among others.

XM is a radio station that allows its subscribers to listen to songs through it's satellite radio broadcast and also record them as MP3 files on a device called the Inno Recorder, by Pioneer. Now, this poses a major threat to online music stores such as Apple's iTunes, because XM has started marketing the Inno, a small 1GB ecorder/player as an alternative to the iPod.

While XM has defended it's operations, if the RIAA wins the lawsuit, then XM's subscribers will have to pay a lot more and access fewer songs for recordings.

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Ok, so they are suing XM for a product axtually made by Pioneer, well that makes sense.

Also, the Sirius S50 made by DEI does the same thing as the Inno does as far as recording music. With both units you can save music from the service to it, but you cannot take it from the unit to your computer. You can put MP3s on them if you want though. The S50 came out a long time ago and no one said a word. The Delphi SkyFi2 XM reciever can save up to 30 mins of music on that you can go back and play whenever you want. Both the Starmate Replay and the Sportster Replay can save up to 44 minutes of music on them that can be played whenever you want.

The predecessors to the S50 and the Inno were the Pioneer Aiware and Delphi MyFi. Both of those are XM units and both of them can save up to 3 hours of music to play whenever you want.

The reason XM and Siruis made the units that can save music on them are so that you can always have the music you want. Both companies know that there are dead spots where you can not get reception, both companies know that people have favorite songs and they do not want to have to wait for it to come on again if they want to listen to it right then, and both companies know that the antennas in the portable units suck so they made the record feature availabe so that you can walk around with it and have uninterupted music.

If the RIAA really cared about what was going on then they would have spoken up when the DEI Sirius S50 was released.
Alan Redding @ May 18, 2006
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