The RIAA wants to make technological progress illegal:

US satellite radio firm XM is being sued by record labels over a gadget that lets listeners record songs.

The recording industry said XM's Inno device, which stores music and divides it into tracks, infringes copyright.

The lawsuit seeks $150,000 (£79,537) in damages for every song copied by XM customers to an Inno gadget.

This is TiVO for radio, but with fewer features. With a DVR, I can not only record TV shows - and divide them into "tracks" (i.e., individual programs) - but I can also drop them to videotape. The Inno device doesn't allow that kind of copying - it's not unlike an iPod. Once the music is there, it can't move further.

Never mind all that though - the RIAA wants to forbid any possible use that doesn't involve them getting paid (never mind the artists though). I have a visual of the morons back at RIAA HQ; deep in the bowels of the building, they are trying to build a weapon that will make anything but vinyl LP's stop working. The image: Doc Brown from "Back to the Future", but without the brains.