Here's a bit more on this:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...pping-systems/
what makes this lawsuit even more ludicrous is that the audio system that GM and Ford have installed is actually legally allowed (see bold bit in quote below) [snipped]
The HDD player cannot make copies of the stored music, once it's ripped you can only play it or delete it, you can't export it to onto another CD.
It also looks like they don't actually pay much of those royalties that they're collecting to the artists: