If you own a Zen MicroPhoto or Zen Vision:M portable media player, you might want to reconsider upgrading that firmware. Creative has announced that, due to increasing pressure from the RIAA (really, does anyone like them at all?), media players released in the future will not have the ability to record FM radio. In addition, they released a firmware upgrade for the Zen MicroPhoto and Vision:M models that disables the FM recording abilities of the players, along with adding a couple of minor fixes.
It appears that the RIAA is after companies that are just trying to do business, too, not only the people downloading music illegally. Earlier this year the RIAA sued XM Satellite Radio for allowing its customers to record satellite radio and save it on their players (there is no way to move this music to the computer, so it really is stuck on the player). Anyone else think this whole music rights thing has gotten out of hand?
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