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XM Satellite Radio responds to the RIAA lawsuit.

May 18, 2006 on 9:39 pm | In riaa, xm |

Here is what XM Satellite Radio had to say about the lawsuit that was filed by the RIAA earlier this week(this was emailed out to all 6+ million subscribers):

Statement to XM Subscribers - The XM Nation

Everything we’ve done at XM since our first minute on the air is about giving you more choices. We provide more channels and music programming than any other network. We play all the music you want to hear including the artists you want to hear but can’t find on traditional FM radio. And we offer the best radios with the features you want for your cars, homes, and all places in between.

We’ve developed new radios — the Inno, Helix and NeXus — that take innovation to the next level in a totally legal way. Like TiVo, these devices give you the ability to enjoy the sports, talk and music programming whenever you want. And because they are portable, you can enjoy XM wherever you want.

The music industry wants to stop your ability to choose when and where you can listen. Their lawyers have filed a meritless lawsuit to try and stop you from enjoying these radios.

They don’t get it. These devices are clearly legal. Consumers have enjoyed the right to tape off the air for their personal use for decades, from reel-to-reel and the cassette to the VCR and TiVo.

Our new radios complement download services, they don’t replace them. If you want a copy of a song to transfer to other players or burn onto CDs, we make it easy for you to buy them through XM + Napster.

Satellite radio subscribers like you are law-abiding music consumers; a portion of your subscriber fee pays royalties directly to artists. Instead of going after pirates who don’t pay a cent, the record labels are attacking the radios used for the enjoyment of music by consumers like you. It’s misguided and wrong.

We will vigorously defend these radios and your right to enjoy them in court and before Congress, and we expect to win.

Thank you for your support.

It’s great to see XM Radio standing their ground and not allowing the RIAA to bully them around. Sirius should thank XM for fighting this battle for Satellite Radio.

Update: Sirius also has had their share of problems with record labels, as tussel points out.

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Sirius had similar issues and paid off the record companies, sir
Had they made a stand maybe XM could have been thanking them, but nope.
http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/sirius-s50-sirius-and-emi-reach-agreement.html
http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/sirius-settles-s50-dispute-with-umg-warner.html
http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/sirius-settles-with-sony-bmg.html

Comment by tussel — May 19, 2006 #
Well.. if Sirius wasn’t spending 1/2 a billion on Stern (4 days a week only mind you), they might be able to afford to fight too.

Comment by hoppiu — May 19, 2006 #
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Pingback by HACKDOT » 2006 » May » 19 — May 19, 2006 #
Interesting. I am a subscriber and didn’t receive this email.

Comment by W — May 19, 2006 #
Sirius doesn’t have a live, portable satellite receiver that’s capable of recording while you listen. This fight is XM’s alone — Sirius doesn’t have the technology yet.

Comment by Aaron — May 19, 2006 #
yes they do in fact they have two

Comment by Dan — May 19, 2006 #
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[…] The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is pushing all the buttons they can to get XM to play by the same rules they’ve foisted on Internet users. If you play, you pay, not just once, but every time. Naturally, XM is not sitting still while this is going on. They have challenged the law suit brought by the RIAA. It seems that the big challenge has come in the digital media age, when the so-called information providers figured out that if you can record a digital version of the product, and only pay once for it (such as you would in buying a CD or DVD), then they lose possible aftersales from worn out or damaged media. You can keep your version as secure as digital backup and redundancy technology makes possible, without any loss in quality no matter how long you keep it. They already lost the battle over old analog recordings, so they figure. […]

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Is there a law to _humiliate_ and dismantle a body like the RIAA? Probably we should make one if there isn’t one already. Those guys need to just fuck off from the face of Earth.

Comment by Don — May 20, 2006 #
I’m a Sirius subscriber but I agree 100% with XM on this. They should organize with Sirius and fight the legal battle to end this crap once and for all. People don’t spend hundreds of dollars on satellite radios to pirate music, they do it to support music.

The RIAA is biting the hand that feeds now. Even the artists are starting to wake up to this. Hopefully it won’t be long now before we stop hearing of these ridiculous charges brought up by the RIAA.

Comment by Kevin — May 20, 2006 #
They’d better win. If any court even gives the RIAA the time of day, it would undoubtedly be the product of either gross ignorance or bribery. I remember reading about the royalties settlement and thinking it almost sounded fair, but this is ridiculous.

Comment by massage-therapy-products — May 20, 2006 #
XM and all you downloading tards are thieves, robbing artists blind. No matter how much you try and re-package it, it is STILL theft. This sort of stuff makes me ashamed to be an American…..

Comment by Chad Bryant — May 20, 2006 #
Chad Bryant your a tard. Maybe even the king of tards.

Comment by Tard Chad Bryant — May 20, 2006 #
XM sucks… sirius is better. I had to say that in response to that bullshit claim that “We play all the music you want to hear including the artists you want to hear but can’t find on traditional FM radio.” I had XM for a year. Hated it, simply. I never found a decent station for my style of music. I would honestly say that there were 10 occasions while boating that I heard one of the artists in my personal collection, and then the next 10-20 songs were NOTHING like the song, different genres altogether. Mixing it up is fine but a person should be able to go to one station. I hope XM dies.

That being said :). The RIAA sucks more and their lawyers should be shot on sight. They are the poster child for money hungry lawsuit happy companies who manage to even sue people for downloading music who have never owned a computer. I’m sure many of you read that article. As much as I hate XM I am glad they are fighting back. I hope they win but go broke :). Forgive me for my personal opinions, but I am still in awe of how much my type of music was IGNORED on XM whereas on Sirius there are several stations with my music. Death to the xxAA’s

Comment by King Dave Wallace — May 21, 2006 #
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Pingback by Weekly Highlights at mattwalters.net — May 21, 2006 #
Mr. Bryant is indeed a tard and possibly the true king of tards. However when you use “your” instead of “you’re” for “you are” you tend to steal your own thunder…

Comment by Tardspotter — May 21, 2006 #
Chad Bryant is definatly a retart. Good god man, this is as much thieving as it is when everyone records a show on their VCR.

Comment by Etrigan — May 22, 2006 #
Good lord now I’m a retard, can’t event spell it right lol.

Comment by Etrigan — May 22, 2006 #
This is in response to King Dave Wallace. if you cant find one station on XM “that suits your music style.” branch out and learn to accept other types of music. and sirius is the exact same type of music that xm is. so please just stfu about the xm channels and focus on the main point of the article

Comment by Hunter — May 23, 2006 #
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No dan, the starmate is not a portable unit,
and no the s50 does not play live satellite radio portably!!!

idjit

Comment by Mike — May 27, 2006 #
Geezer…how many ‘retarts’ do we have here?

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Pingback by Renascent Exegete » Blog Archive » RIAA Sue XM — June 17, 2006 #
XM has no content and the music on XM sucks. I bought SIRIUS and I am much happier!

Comment by Poop On XM — July 10, 2006 #
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Pingback by Tech Industry » XM Satellite Radio responds to the Stupid RIAA lawsuit. — September 11, 2006 #
It’s like saying you like Pepsi better than Coca Cola. They are so similar, but people have a strong opinion for no real reason… unless they like Howard Sterns or someone else on only one system.

Comment by Satellite on PC — September 27, 2006 #
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Pingback by » XM Satellite Radio responds to the Stupid RIAA lawsuit. — October 25, 2006 #
I prefer XM satellite, I have the opportunity of rekindling my passion for non stop music by tuning into the best of musical entertainment from around the world with XM Satellite Radio on DIRECTV.
So , try it !!

Comment by Mike Smith — January 8, 2007 #
This is a fee based service. Just because the service earns fees the riaa should not double dip. if the artists are paid royalties for these fees they must have some clue that people may record them if not with these radios in other forms.

Everyone is getting paid just leave it alone.

Comment by Charity — April 18, 2007 #
Xm is the better of the 2 companies. Sirius has some good stuff too but the customers that buy xm tend to be educated professionals and the customers for sirius tend to be low brow knuckle draggers. I sell both systems everyday and that’s the truth. Xm subscribers probably agree with this, and sirius customers… well they probably can’t use a computer so who cares what they think.

Comment by Bigel — October 7, 2007 #

XM Satellite Radio responds to the RIAA lawsuit.

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