Seen on the wires:
XM Satellite Radio asked a federal judge Monday to throw out a copyright lawsuit by the recording industry over the company’s new iPod-like device that can store up to 50 hours of music.[.]
The lawsuit, filed in May in New York by the largest record labels, accuses XM Satellite of “massive wholesale infringement” because the new gadget [(the Inno)] can record hours of music and automatically organize recordings by song and artist. The device is sold under the slogan, “Hear it, click it, save it.”
There are times that I think the recording industry needs a good swift kick in the pants. This is one of them. XM’s gadget doesn’t facilitate piracy, and one would think that promoting interest in more artists, more types of music would only benefit those the RIAA allegedly protects.albeit at the expense of some of the crap that can be frequently/usually be found on the Top 40 charts.