Two different things,
LOL!! Yeah! One expense GENERATES revenue, the other is an Expense with no revenue offset.
XM has spent no more on legal fees than SIRI has already paid RIAA related to the S50 and Stiletto
Exactly.. The amounts involved appears by your viewpoint to be "non-material". Yet, XM management has chosen to spend their money fighting the concept.. While SIRI moves on. The issue is behind them.. While the expenses are just starting for XM. Radio redisgns, legal consul, etc. In the end.. They will end up paying anyway. They should learn which fights are worth picking.
And these products have been failures!
That my boy.. Is you poor opinion.
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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.
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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.
(TIVO, Reel-to-Reel, VCR, cassette), and Satellite Radio are two different "fair use" concepts.
TIVO allows the user to record and playback highly compressed and lower quality images than that of the original material. In FM Radio. Dynamic range of the recording was altered with the use of Compressors/Expanders at the studio. In addition. The signal passed through various stages of hetrodyning in the frequency modulation detection process. AM Radio, I don't think I even need to go there.
Another example. When you record a movie off of HBO on a TIVO. It is not an exact digital copy of the original movie. It passes thru several stages of lower quality compression and decompression before it gets to your home, then the TIVO device provides yet another round of high compression artifacts as it is being recorded.
When you compare what was originally transmitted, and what the final product is at the consumer location. It is comparable to the "free use" concept of over the air analog FM radio and a cassette tape player. The quality of the original is not the same as the "free use" copy.
This is not true in Satellite Radio, the copy recorded on the consumer device is an exact duplicate of the original digital "master" being distributed.
This is the crux of the RIAA complaint. Of course, XM management avoids the actual root of their problem, and instead attempts to portray the RIAA as an evil empire attempting to violate the Constitutional Rights of fellow Americans.
They don’t get it. These devices are clearly legal.
Tell that to Da Judge again. LOL!!
And so it goes,
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