Timeshifting Debate finally hitting home

Slyck has a good feature on XM and Sirius rolling out devices that allow the user to TIME-SHIFT (aka RECORD) the digital radio programs they are offering.  Quote:  "Satellite radio companies XM and Sirius are attracting unwanted attention by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for allowing listeners to record and store songs. RIAA executives claim that this activity is a blatant copyright violation."

This debate is late to the party given the widely-spread practice of recording WebRadio using ReplayMusic and countless other software products including Windows own, internal Recorder. The bottom line is that Time-Shifting, Space Shifting and Device Shifting is here, now, and it would be better just to license the music for these kinds of applications than to try to  extinguish them.