The Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) is charging the recording industry with breaking earlier agreements with consumers, congress and courts. The RIAA is suing US satellite radio firm XM over the Inno, a device that lets users record satellite radio broadcasts to be listened to at a later time. According to the HRRC, “the recording industry has now, via lawsuit, labeled its best customers as pirates and sought unprecedented tools to use against them.”

“I have a long enough memory to be astonished at the suit filed yesterday. We worked in good faith with the music industry to help pass the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA), based on personal assurances that I received that it would put an end to this sort of harassing lawsuit against private, noncommercial consumer conduct,” said HRRC Chairman Gary Shapiro.