Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Creative Bows to the RIAA
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "CONTENT" @ 02:00 PM
"It looks like the RIAA's war on music pirates continues to affect not only legitimate consumers but music companies as well. This week, Creative announced that it will be removing FM radio recording from its portable music players from here on out. Creative has released a new firmware update for its Zen MicroPhoto and Zen Vision:M players that removes FM recording. We're finding it baffling that owners of the above products would rush to download such an update."
I'd read about this earlier and it looks like the disclosure is buried in the release notes for the firmware update. Chances are most users would not even know about it until after the update. This is yet another stupid move by the RIAA and it is too bad Creative caved as FM recording is one of the features that differentiate many players from iPods.
I'd read about this earlier and it looks like the disclosure is buried in the release notes for the firmware update. Chances are most users would not even know about it until after the update. This is yet another stupid move by the RIAA and it is too bad Creative caved as FM recording is one of the features that differentiate many players from iPods.
