Majors on the warpath again
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
It would seem that over in the states Major Labels are up in arms again and this time are suing the XM Satellite Radio over some time-shifting device. Apparently Doc Brown & Marty deny that they used the Delorian to go back to 1955 at all and that playing Chuck Berry before it was actually written is a breach of copyright and that it is their track and that they are due 51 years of missed royalities.
Well no, but XM Satellite Radio has recently-released the time-shifting Pioneer Inno. The device offers satellite receptivity and the ability to store 50 hours of broadcast content in a 1GB drive. Recorded tracks can then be accessed on-demand, as long as the user maintains a subscription to XM. Also the device allows consumers port 512MB of audio files from the hard drives onto a portable device.
"The service transforms XM's satellite transmission from a radio broadcast to a digital download delivery service that provide subscribers with permanent copies of individual songs," the complaint reads.
So there you go... Tech is still fancy.