RIAA Sues XM Over the Pioneer Inno

[Audioholics]

<A href="http://www.audioholics.com/news/editorials/RIAAsuesXM.php"><IMG style="WIDTH: 68px; HEIGHT: 100px" alt=[pioneerinno1] hspace=10 src="http://www.audioholics.com/news/thumbs/pioneerinno1_th.jpg" align=left border=0></A>The Recording Industry Association of America is embarking (again) on a campaign to begin eating its young by suing XM, a legitimate subscriber music service that already pays royalties to the recording industry. XM has nothing to gain from piracy and has traditionally stood behind the efforts of the RIAA. It could be the recording industry is getting desperate to find new sources of revenue. Or it could be that they just want to see how far they can go before we all get smart enough to only solicit independent labels. In its suit the RIAA is looking for $150,000 for each song copied using the device by an artist it represents. Come to think of it, I am looking for that much money, too...

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[agarwalro]

My fiance's iPod died recently. The whole music library was lost. Unfortunately, she did not have the library backed up any where else. How is it that to restore her collection she is having to buy every song again. Clearly, having paid for the music once, she should not need to buy it again.

RIAA is only concerned with their own good. Even when they say artists, they mean the Lables behind the artists. Its all a scam in the name of protecting the artists work.

 

[Steve1000]

That's awful. What a waste of our taxper-funded court system, and I'd like to know exactly how this will promote the sciences and useful arts (the constitutional basis for copyright law).

Current copyright law is a total abomination of the framers' intent, hijacked, bought and paid for by the RIAA and the MPAA.

From Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution:

The Congress shall have the power...

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

Several interesting terms here: "progress"... "science and useful arts"... "limited times"... "authors and inventors"... "writings and discoveries"...

And this has WHAT to do with a Britney Spears single?

I guess we'll get to see if there's anything left of the fair use doctrine for our children and grandchildren.

<A href="http://www.audioholics.com/news/editorials/RIAAsuesXM.php"><IMG style="WIDTH: 68px; HEIGHT: 100px" alt=[pioneerinno1] hspace=10 src="http://www.audioholics.com/news/thumbs/pioneerinno1_th.jpg" align=left border=0></A>The Recording Industry Association of America is embarking (again) on a campaign to begin eating its young by suing XM, a legitimate subscriber music service that already pays royalties to the recording industry. XM has nothing to gain from piracy and has traditionally stood behind the efforts of the RIAA...[Read the Editorial]

 

[mustang_steve]

It's amazing the RIAA didn't sue themselves yet.

 

[pikers]

Clearly, having paid for the music once, she should not need to buy it again.

If you buy the CD and lose it, the store won't replace it for free. Same difference.

The XM thing, wow. They already pay royalties, and the RIAA wants more? I'm not sure why one would copy off that watery sounding crap for a source anyway...

 

[agarwalro]

It's amazing the RIAA didn't sue themselves yet.

Nice.