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Creative Disables FM Recording In Zen
By: Aalaap Ghag   |   Oct 18,2006

The latest firmware update for the Zen Vision:M sneaks in a “feature update” that’s sure to tick off most of its users who decided upon buying the device due to its FM tuning and recording capability. The update disables recording, so even though you can listen to FM radio on your Zen Vision:M, you can’t record it anymore.

The removal of the FM recording feature is a result of potential violation of copyright. Queries to tech support were replied to by saying that the “FM recording feature is removed due to licensing issues.”

Is this the first domino to fall in a series that could probably wipe out the existence of big name products that record media such as DVD recorders, hard disk drive-based PVRs, and even cassette recorders, if anyone still buys those?
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Yet microsoft still boasts about its programs that allow you to record tv shows, movies, and music while encouraging you to do so with it's media center os.......How ironic.
Gutter La Crosse @ Oct 22,2006
I don't get why the the riaa / mpaa hasn't had action taken against them. All they do is go around ******* up technological progress. Why don't we all just have to submit to a cavity search to play every cd we own in order to make sure we didnt get a copy from a friend. These people need to be killed, and all knowledge of their existence disavowed before we are all living in a world where people are too afraid to watch tv and tell a friend about a show without showing them the ads...
Fuck the RIAA @ Oct 22,2006
So if i bought a zen because the product box and the creative website and the salesman listed "record from fm radio" as a feature. Will creative allow me to return the product to them for a full refund? Because that was the main feature i was looking for when i went shopping!
Dave, Toronto @ Oct 22,2006
Wow. I have a zen vision:m... Now i certainly won't be upgrading it's firmware.
Derek @ Oct 21,2006
Thatsa a great way to drive away your customer base...., i know i will avoid crative products
colinuxguy @ Oct 21,2006
> please be polite ...

ahh, um. Never mind then.
Robert, London @ Oct 21,2006
As much as i think copyright should still have some meaning, i'm really looking forward to the riaa making itself obsolete by alienating its customer base with stuff like this. I have, for some strange reason, no desire to listen to music anymore. I wonder why.
nobody important, Las Vegas @ Oct 21,2006
Friggen lame. I sure hope this doesn't trickle to all vendors that have recording capabilities. What ever happened to the radio and cassette tapes?
Frankie @ Oct 21,2006
Fm radio has been recordable since the cassette recorder was first marketed. Time shifting is also completely legal under us law. Why is creative bowing to pressure which is only to diminishing their product? It's just pathetic.
Underlord @ Oct 21,2006
I think this is ridiculous. I was recording radio shows back in the 80s with my tapedeck (which i bought it for). And now, suddenly in the 21st century, that is illegal? The more the riaa is trying to stifle my abilities of recording and using digital media, the more i will make it my mission to find ways around it. I'm a patient person and there's always a way. Haven't bought a cd in years, not because i cannot afford it (far from that) - because i don't agree with the business practices and illegal washinton lobbying of the music industry.
Some really angry dude @ Oct 21,2006
Hey! Thats ok! You can still record am, right? Right??!?!
wind @ Oct 21,2006
Not for long!
Bill Los angeles @ Oct 21,2006
If people bought this device being advertised with fm recording in it, and now creative disables that, doesn't it open up creative to a massive class action lawsuit?
John S. @ Oct 21,2006
I thought i read that they re-enabled this...
Damon, Seattle @ Oct 21,2006
Bull shit tape recorders never but them out so y do thay think they own the world o wait they have the gov backing them
Greg @ Oct 21,2006
Thank god they let you listen to fm without having to pay for every song played
azad bangaloe @ Oct 18,2006
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