Posted on: May 18, 2006 in Miscellany
The death throes continue..
XM has launched the Inno, which allows XM customers to record up to 50 hours of music and automatically parses recordings by song and artist.
So of course, the recording industry is suing XM radio.
“The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York by the largest labels, seeks $150,000 in damages for every song copied by XM Satellite customers using the devices, which went on sale weeks ago.”
I’m actually neither a fan of XM Radio or the Recording Industry, so maybe they’ll take each other out.
What’s my issue with XM Radio? I certainly think it’s a step forward from the clear channel oligopoly, but I still feel that there are better ways for people to enjoy and discover new music. That long tail is pretty long though, and 70 channels of music seems unlikely to cater to an individual the way last.fm radio does, for example. If I could get last.fm streamed over satellite to a portable player, that would be much more interesting.