RIAA Wants To Design Your Radio
The Recording Industry Association of America has sued XM Radio, claiming that XM's new Inno radio violates copyright law.
The RIAA wants a greater license fee and design oversight for services that allow consumers to record music. XM competitor Sirius Satellite Radio is already paying protection money to record companies for devices it sells. Sources at XM say the RIAA rejected the company's offer of $18 per device because record companies "wanted to help decide the functions XM's devices offer."
As the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred Von Lohman points out, this lawsuit is one of many that represent "a coordinated strategic effort by the entertainment industry to change the copyright law jurisprudence that applies to everyone."
