http://satelink.net/2005/09/sirius-xm-trade-blows-via-release-of-portable-players/ News and information about satellite-based consumer-electronics products and services for you. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:32:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://satelink.net/2005/09/sirius-xm-trade-blows-via-release-of-portable-players/comment-page-1/#comment-35 SateLink.net » Satellite radio seen as recording industry threat Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:24:53 +0000 http://satelink.net/2005/09/sirius-xm-trade-blows-via-release-of-portable-players/#comment-35 [...] Broadcasting premium, commercial-free music is one thing, but making it easy to record and take anywhere? Well, that just may be too much for the recording industry to swallow. According to an RIAA spokesman, Sirius’s new S50 portable radio recorder and XM’s doppelganger “neXus” may be grounds for a law suit: Illegal song trading has been blamed by the record industry for declines in sales, and labels have become increasingly aggressive in their legal battles to defend their product. Now that focus includes portable players. [...] [...] Broadcasting premium, commercial-free music is one thing, but making it easy to record and take anywhere? Well, that just may be too much for the recording industry to swallow. According to an RIAA spokesman, Sirius’s new S50 portable radio recorder and XM’s doppelganger “neXus” may be grounds for a law suit: Illegal song trading has been blamed by the record industry for declines in sales, and labels have become increasingly aggressive in their legal battles to defend their product. Now that focus includes portable players. [...]

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